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Lithostege fissurata

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Species of moth

Lithostege fissurata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Lithostege
Species: L. fissurata
Binomial name
Lithostege fissurata
Mabille,
Synonyms
  • Lithostege inanis Prout in Seitz, 1941
  • Lithostege fitzgeraldi Wiltshire, 1947

Lithostege fissurata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Jules Paul Mabille in 1888. It is found from western Algeria to Libya, south-eastern Egypt and Israel and from Saudi Arabia to south-eastern Iran and southern Iraq. It is also found on Malta.

The wingspan is 19–28 mm. Adults are on wing from early March to early May and from mid-February to mid-March.

Subspecies

  • Lithostege fissurata fissurata
  • Lithostege fissurata inanis Prout in Seitz, 1941 (Saudi Arabia to south-eastern Iran and southern Iraq)

References

  1. Fauna Europaea
  2. Lithostege fissurata Mabille, [1888] from Malta, new for the Fauna of Europe Archived 2013-12-03 at the Wayback Machine

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Taxon identifiers
Lithostege fissurata


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