''Angerona'' is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unispec ...

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

genus in the family

Geometridae The geometer moths are moths belonging to the family Geometridae of the insect order Lepidoptera, the moths and butterflies. Their scientific name derives from the Ancient Greek ''geo'' γεω (derivative form of or "the earth"), and ''met ...

erected by

Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel (1774 – 10 January 1846) was a French soldier and entomologist. Life and career Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel was born in 1774 in Valenciennes, Nord, and died on 10 January 1846 in Paris. After studies ...

in 1829. Its only species, ''Angerona prunaria'', the orange moth, was first described by

Carl Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...

in his 1758 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae''.

Description

''Angerona prunaria'' is a relatively large and prominent representatives of the geometer moths. It can reach a wingspan of 35–45 mm, rarely up to 56 mm. As in most Lepidoptera, the males are usually slightly smaller than the females. The ground colour is red to orange or yellow. There is a fine grey to almost black cross stippling and a transverse vein spot in females. The fringes have dark spots. The species is very variable. The males of this species are brighter in colour than the females, both sexes can be found in the typical plain orange form, as well as f. ''corylaria'', which exhibits an orange band on a dark brown ground colour.Prout, L. B. (1912–16). Geometridae. In A. Seitz (ed.) ''The Macrolepidoptera of the World''. The Palaearctic Geometridae, 4. 479 pp. Alfred Kernen, Stuttgar
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Forma

*''Angerona prunaria'' f. ''spangbergi'' Lampa. Dark cross-band is missing. *''Angerona prunaria'' f. ''corylaria'' Thunberg. The basal and marginal areas are darkened olive brown, the discal area remains in the ground colour. *''Angerona prunaria'' f. ''pickettaria'' Prout. With remnants of the ground colour in the disc *''Angerona prunaria'' f. ''fuscaria'' Prout. Monochrome dark brown wings. *''Angerona prunaria'' f. ''pallidaria'' Prout. Like ''corylaria'', but grey instead of dark brown parts. The caterpillars are also variably coloured. They resemble small dead branches to confuse predators. The body colour ranges from a pale yellowish brown to grey-brown to reddish-brown. The sides and the back are patterned with a series of black strokes and dots. On the fifth segment there is a pair of small dorsal humps, on segment ten there is an eye-catching pair of dorsal humps. The head of the caterpillars is brown, they reach a length of up to 50 millimeters The moth prefers forest areas and is found in central and northern Europe, Russia and the Middle East and east across the

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

to Japan.In Hokkaido (Japan) the species is represented by the subspecies ''Angerona prunaria turbata'' Prout The flight time is May to July. The larva feeds on ''

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References

External links

"70.230 BF1924 Orange Moth ''Angerona prunaria'' (Linnaeus, 1758)"
''UKMoths''. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
"07665 ''Angerona prunaria'' (Linnaeus, 1758) - Schlehenspanner"
''Lepiforum e.V.'' Retrieved 2 February 2019. Angeronini Moths of Japan Moths of Europe Moths described in 1758 Moths of Asia Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Ennominae-stub