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Family: Geometridae   Checklist Number: 70.091

Eulithis populata  (Linnaeus, 1758)

Northern Spinach

Common across the archipelago in a wide range of habitats but most often encountered in moorland. On the wing from July to August. The larval food-plant is bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).

References: 
Leverton, R. & Cubitt, M. (2024). The Larger Moths of Scotland.
Waring, P. & Townsend, M. (2018 third edition). Field Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland.

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