Cyclophora punctaria

Cyclophora punctaria
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Cyclophora
Species:	C. punctaria
Binomial name
Cyclophora punctaria (Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
Synonyms
Phalaena punctaria Linnaeus, 1758 Geometra acutaria Roquette, 1857 Phalaena amata Linnaeus, 1758 Phalaena amataria Linnaeus, 1761 Phalaena communifasciata Donovan, 1808 Phalaena fultaria Villers, 1789 Zonosoma naevata Bastelberger, 1900 Ephyra radiomarginata de Joannis, 1908 Geometra subangularia Haworth, 1809 Phalaena teutonaria Linnaeus, 1758 Phalaena unifasciata Donovan, 1808 Cosymbia delaeveri Berger, 1949 Cyclophora delaeveri

Cyclophora punctaria, the maiden's blush, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. The species is mainly prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe. In the north, its distribution extends to southern Fennoscandia and the British Isles, in the west via France to parts of northern Spain, in the south via Italy, the Balkan Peninsula (with the exception of Greece) to Asia Minor. The eastern border of the distribution is roughly the Ural. In the Caucasus area, the nominate subspecies is replaced by the subspecies C. punctaria fritzae. The range of this subspecies extends as far as Iran.Cyclophora punctaria is found mainly in wooded areas with oak scrub and oak forests. In Central Europe it rises up to 700 metres in the hills, rarely up to 1,200 metres in the Alps, and regularly rises to 1,300 metres in southern Europe.