Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods) ➔ Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods) ➔ Class Insecta (Insects) ➔ Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and moths) ➔ Family Geometridae (Geometer or inchworm moths)
Odezia atrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Schwarzspanner Chimney Sweeper
Synonyms and other combinations:
Phalaena atrata Linnaeus, 1758 [original combination] |
Further vernacular names:
Chimney SweepClassification:
Odezia atrata belongs to the subfamily Larentiinae, tribe Chesiadini.Distribution:
Europe, eastwards in the temperate zone to Sakhalin and Japan.Habitat:
Wet meadows, clearings in alluvial forests, mountain meadows, in the Alps up to altitudes of 2400 m.Description:
Odezia atrata has a forewing length of 12 - 15 mm. The wingspan is about 23 - 30 mm. Body, forewings and hindwings are black. Only the apex of the forewings is white hemmed. In older specimens the white fringes at the wing tips may be missing. The moths are unmistakable.Biology:
The Chimney Sweeper Odezia atrata forms one generation per year. The diurnal moths fly from the end of May to July. They feed on nectar and are often found on flowers.Odezia atrata hibernates as egg. The caterpillars live and develop on umbellifers (Apiaceae). Food plants are Chaerophyllum, Anthriscus sylvestris (cow parsley), Aegopodium podagraria (ground elder) and Conopodium majus. The caterpillars pupate in the soil.
References, further reading, links:
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- Aplocera plagiata/efformata
- Epirrita sp.
- Idaea filicata
- Phaiogramma faustinata
- Scopula minorata
- Thera variata/britannica
- Barred Straw
- Beautiful Carpet
- Birch Mocha
- Black Beauty
- Black-veined Moth
- Blood-vein
- Brindled White-spot
- Chimney Sweeper
- Clouded Border
- Clouded Silver
- Common Carpet
- Common Emerald
- Common Heath
- Common Marbled Carpet
- Common Wave
- Common White Wave
- Cream Wave
- Dingy Shell
- Dotted Border
- Double-striped Pug
- Dwarf Cream Wave
- Etruscan Viridian
- Feathered Beauty
- Feathered Thorn
- Garden Carpet
- Golden-rod Pug
- Great Oak Beauty
- Lace Border
- Large Emerald
- Large Twin-spot Carpet
- Latticed Heath
- Lesser Cream Wave
- Light Emerald
- Light Orange Underwing
- Little Thorn
- Maiden’s Blush
- Maple Pug
- Mottled Beauty
- Mottled Pug
- Mottled Umber
- Northern Winter Moth
- Oak Beauty
- Orange Moth
- Orange Underwing
- Pale Brindled Beauty
- Pale Oak Beauty
- Peacock Moth
- Peppered Moth
- Pug
- Purple Thorn
- Purple-barred Yellow
- Rannoch Looper
- Red Twin-spot Carpet
- Red-green Carpet
- Riband Wave
- Satin Beauty
- Satyr Pug
- Scarce Umber
- Scorched Carpet
- Seraphim
- Shaded Broad-bar
- Sharp-angled Carpet
- Silver-ground Carpet
- Single-dotted Wave
- Small Argent and Sable
- Small Brindled Beauty
- Small Dusty Wave
- Small Engrailed
- Small Fan-footed Wave
- Small Scallop
- Small Yellow Wave
- Spring Usher
- Tawny-barred Angle
- Vestal
- White-pinion Spotted
- Willow Beauty
- Winter Moth
- Yellow Shell