Aleucis distinctata, the sloe carpet or Kent mocha, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1839. It is found from Europe to Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan.
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| Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 6 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Aleucis |
| Species: | A. distinctata
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| Binomial name | |
| Aleucis distinctata (Herrich-Schäffer, [1839])
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The wingspan is 27–31 mm. The head is fuscous. The forewings are fuscous, sprinkled with darker. The first line is hardly curved, the second is subsinuate, waved and dark fuscous. There is a dark fuscous discal spot. The hindwings are whitish-fuscous, the dorsum sprinkled with darker with a discal dot and a waved second line. The larva is brown-grey segments 5–8 with a dark V-shaped dorsal mark; segments 1,2 with a black transverse line; segments 8, 9 with whitish lateral patches; segments 3, 4 with a short oblique black lateral streak; segments 6–9 with black lateral spots.[1] Very like Theria rupicapraria but smaller, with simple antenna, abdomen with white dorsal dots. Local in Central Europe ab. contrastaria Fuchs has the median area darkened. orientalis Stgr.[now full species], the usual eastern form, is paler, more greyish. Asia Minor, Palestine and Mardin.[2]
The larvae feed on Prunus spinosa.
References edit
- ^ Meyrick, E., 1895 A Handbook of British Lepidoptera MacMillan, London pdf
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Keys and description
- ^ Prout, L. B. (1912–16). Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.) The Macrolepidoptera of the World. The Palaearctic Geometridae, 4. 479 pp. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart.pdf This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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