''Isturgia famula'' 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. It is known from southern

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...

. Adults are on wing from May to June and are on wing during the day on sunny days. The larvae feed on '' Cytisus'', '' Genista'', ''

Sarothamnus ''Cytisus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to open sites (typically scrub and heathland) in Europe, western Asia and North Africa. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae, and is one of several genera in the tribe G ...

'', '' Spartium'' and '' Ulex'' species. It overwinters as a

pupa A pupa ( la, pupa, "doll"; plural: ''pupae'') is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in their ...

in the ground.

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Fauna Europaea
* ttp://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Isturgia_Famula Lepiforum.de Macariini Moths of Europe Taxa named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper Moths described in 1787 {{Macariini-stub