Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Hexapoda Order Lepidoptera Scientific name Xanthorhoe designata | Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Family Geometridae Rank Species | |
 | ||
Similar Xanthorhoe, Xanthorhoe ferrugata, Xanthorhoe spadicearia, Ecliptopera silaceata, Garden carpet | ||
Xanthorhoe designata, the flame carpet, is a moth of the genus Xanthorhoe in the family Geometridae.
Contents
Distribution
Europe, Asiatic Russia and Japan.
Description
"Coloured nearly as in munitata but the median band is light red and with a conspicuous black bar at its proximal edge and usually with the distal edge also — at least in its anterior part, conspicuously black.Under surface more weakly marked. - ab. coarctata ab. nov. [Prout] has the median band greatly narrowed, usually very dark, about as in the corresponding aberration of ferrugata. - islandicaria Stgr. has the ground-colour more weakly marked, often whiter, the median band also pale in its centre but commonly with the black edgings widened. Iceland."
Biology
The moth flies from the beginning of April to the end of September.
Habitats: meadows, damp woodland, hedgerows and suburban gardens.
The larvae feed on species of Brassicaceae. Xanthorhoe designata overwinters as a pupa.