''Earophila badiata'', the shoulder stripe, is a

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of the family

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. The species was first described by

Michael Denis Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: ''Sined the Bard'', (27 September 1729 – 29 September 1800) was an Austrian Catholic priest and Jesuit, who is best known as a poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist. Life Denis was born at Schärdin ...

and

Ignaz Schiffermüller Jeremias "Johann" Ignaz Schiffermüller (; 2 November 1727 – 21 June 1806) was an Austrian naturalist and Jesuit teacher who took a special interest in the Lepidoptera. In order to describe the colours of butterflies, he also looked for a syste ...

in 1775. It is found from most of Europe and

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to the

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in the east

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. The

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is 25–30 mm. Adults are variable in colour and size.ab. ''pallida'' Lambill. is paler, the basal area little darkened, distal not darkened, the median band whitish, without a blue-grey spot distally to the cell.; ab. ''rectifasciaria'' Lambill. has the pale median area one-third broader than usual and not traversed by lines, the lines which bound it sharply marked. — ab. ''alpestris'' Neuburger, from the Tyrol, (at 3400 m) has the median area brown, the distal moderately darkened with no pale part and the hindwing also somewhat browner; in ab. ''subbadiata'' Strand the median band is pale, narrow, interrupted in the middle, the posterior part sometimes broken up into spots. The Larva is elongate, cylindrical; head rounded, distinct, orange with a large black spot on side; body very variable in colour dorsally, green, purple or slaty grey, a dark spot on side of prothoracic leg, another dorsally on the 10th abdominal segment, dorsal tubercles white, lateral tubercles black. The rather stout pupa is dark glossy red-brown, the anal segment black, the cremaster short and thick.Jaan Viidalepp and Axel Hausmann, 2013 In: Axel Hausmann (Hrsg.): ''The Geometrid Moths of Europe''. 1. Auflage. Volume 3: Larentiinae I. Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2013, Adults are on wing from mid March to May in two generations. The larvae feed on ''

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'' species. Larvae can be found from March to July. It overwinters as a pupa in loose soil. Paul Robert - Anticlea badiata

Subspecies

*''Earophila badiata badiata'' (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) *''Earophila badiata fennokarelica'' (Kaisila, 1945)

References

External links

Shoulder stripe at ''UKMoths''

''Lepiforum e.V.''
Larentiini Moths of Europe Moths of Asia Moths of Africa Taxa named by Michael Denis Taxa named by Ignaz Schiffermüller Moths described in 1775 {{Larentiini-stub