''Entephria punctipes'' is a

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 ...

of 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 ''metro ...

first described by John Curtis in 1835. It is found in the extreme north of the Palearctic and Nearctic realms. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan o ...

is . Adults are on wing from June to July. The larval food plants are unknown.

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''Fauna Europaea''''Svenska dagfjärilar och nattfjärilar''
Larentiini Moths of Europe Taxa named by John Curtis {{Larentiini-stub