Insects of Britain and Ireland: the pug moths (Lepidoptera-Geometridae)

L. Watson and M.J. Dallwitz

Contents

This contents page, the keys, and the descriptions were generated automatically from a DELTA database (Dallwitz 1980; Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1993).

Introduction

Conventional key • Interactive key, including interactive information retrieval • Hints on using the interactive key

The interactive key is easy to use, allows free choice of characters, and can lead to correct identifications in spite of occasional errors. It can display all the illustrations, full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa.

Character list •  General morphology of Lepidoptera • Implicit attributes • DELTA data files

Notes on John Curtis’s British Entomology • Updated insect names for John Curtis’s British Entomology • Updated plant names for John Curtis’s British Entomology • Notes on Edward Newman’s British Moths and British Butterflies • Updated legends for Jacob Hübner’s Sammlung europäischer Schmetterlinge • Notes on the scanning of the images

Poems on insects by Giles Watson

Acknowledgements • References • Citation • Contacts, conditions of use, contributions

Descriptions

The bold parts in the descriptions are diagnostic descriptions, generated with the aid of Intkey (Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1995, 2000). They distinguish most taxa in at least two respects from the other taxa.

We advise against extracting comparative information from the descriptions. This is much more easily achieved using the DELTA data files or the interactive key. See also Guidelines for using data taken from Web publications.

• Anticollix sparsata (Treitschke)

• Chloroclystis v-ata (Haworth)

• Eupithecia abbreviata Stephens • Eupithecia absinthiata (Clerck) • Eupithecia abietaria (Goeze) • Eupithecia assimilata Doubl. • Eupithecia cauchiata (Duponchel) • Eupithecia centaureata (Denis & Schiffermüller) • Eupithecia denotata (Hübner) • Eupithecia distinctaria Herrich-Schäffer • Eupithecia dodoneata Guenée • Eupithecia egenaria Herrich-Schäffer • Eupithecia exiguata (Hübner) • Eupithecia expallidata Doubleday • Eupithecia extensaria (Freyer) • Eupithecia fraxinata Crewe • Eupithecia goossensiata Mabille • Eupithecia haworthiata (Doubleday) • Eupithecia icterata Villers • Eupithecia indigata (Hübner) • Eupithecia insigniata (Hübner) • Eupithecia intricata (Zetterstedt) • Eupithecia inturbata (Hübner) • Eupithecia irriguata (Hübner) • Eupithecia lariceata (Freyer) • Eupithecia linariata (Denis & Schiffermüller) • Eupithecia millefoliata Rössler • Eupithecia nanata (Hübner) • Eupithecia phoeniceata (Rambur) • Eupithecia pimpinellata (Hübner) • Eupithecia plumbeolata (Haworth) • Eupithecia pulchellata Stephens • Eupithecia pusillata (Denis & Schiffermüller) • Eupithecia pygmaeata (Hübner) • Eupithecia satyrata (Hübner) • Eupithecia simpliciata (Haworth) • Eupithecia subfuscata (Haworth) • Eupithecia subumbrata (Denis & Schiffermüller) • Eupithecia succenturiata (Linnaeus) • Eupithecia tantillaria Boisduval • Eupithecia tenuiata (Hübner) • Eupithecia tripunctaria Herrich-Schäffer • Eupithecia trisignaria Herrich-Schäffer • Eupithecia valerianata (Hübner) • Eupithecia venosata (Fabricius) • Eupithecia virgaureata Doubleday • Eupithecia vulgata (Haworth)

• Gymnoscelis rufifasciata (Haworth)

• Pasiphila chloerata Mabille • Pasiphila debiliata (Hübner) • Pasiphila rectangulata (Linnaeus)

Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2003 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: the pug moths (Lepidoptera-Geometridae). Version: 27th July 2019. delta-intkey.com’.

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