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Purple Bar
Cosmorhoe ocellata
Cosmorhoe is a monotypic genus of moth in the family Geometridae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1825. Its only species, Cosmorhoe ocellata, the purple bar, was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.
From the article Cosmorhoe on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Their wingspan is between 20 and 29 mm and the length of their forewings is between 13 and 15 mm. The ground colour of the forewings is creamy white to bright white. The base and midfield are coloured black to blue black. The latter is crossed by two bright lines. In the midfield band is a deep, jagged spot. In the bright areas between the basal area and the midfield as well as in the marginal field are grey or black spots of varying degrees. The hindwings are whitish and show a small black middle spot.
Caterpillars are brownish, with bright angled markings on their backs and bright stripes on the sides. The pupa is usually shiny red brown.
Range & habitat
The species can be found in the Palearctic realm, which includes western Europe and the British Isles, Central Europe, Central Asia, Asia Minor, and Kyrgyzstan.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 321977.