''Triphosa dubitata'', the tissue, 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 species 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''. It is found from north-west Africa 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 ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. The

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is 38–48 mm. Adults are on wing from August to September depending on the location. The larvae feed on bird cherry (''

Prunus padus ''Prunus padus'', known as bird cherry, hackberry, hagberry, or Mayday tree, is a flowering plant in the rose family. It is a species of cherry, a deciduous small tree or large shrub up to tall. It is the type species of the subgenus '' Padus' ...

''), '' Rhamnus'' species (including alder buckthorn ('' Rhamnus frangula''), buckthorn ('' Rhamnus cathartica'') and ash ('' Fraxinus excelsior'').

Subspecies

* ''Triphosa dubitata dubitata'' * ''Triphosa dubitata amblychiles'' Prout, 1937

References

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''Fauna Europaea''

''Lepiforum. e.V.''
Rheumapterini Moths described in 1758 Moths of Africa Moths of Asia Moths of Europe Moths of Japan Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Rheumapterini-stub