''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.
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. Very like ''
Theria rupicapraria
''Theria rupicapraria'' is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout in Europe and the South Caucasus.
The wingspan is 28–30 mm for males. Females have reduced wings. Adults are on wing from January to April. There is one g ...
'' but smaller, with simple antenna, abdomen with white dorsal dots. Local in Central Europe ab. ''contrastaria'' Fuchs has the median area darkened. ''orientalis'' Stgr.
ow full species the usual eastern form, is paler, more greyish. Asia Minor, Palestine and Mardin.
[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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The larvae feed on ''
Prunus spinosa''.
References
External links
''Fauna Europaea''''UKMoths''Lepiforum
Baptini
Moths of Europe
Moths described in 1839
Moths of Asia
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