GEOMETRIDAE | Ennominae | Caberini

70.277 Cabera pusaria (Common White Wave)

fw: 15-17mm; May-Sep; birches (Betula spp), alder (Alnus glutinosa), sallows (Salix spp); common throughout GB
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Cabera pusaria (Common White Wave) §1 male
ID: Similar to C.exanthemata (Common Wave). C.pusaria has 3 fairly straight silver-grey cross-lines on forewing; in C.exanthemata these lines are brown, curved and often indistinct.

  • Variation
  • Dissection
  • Male genitalia
  • Female genitalia
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§1 Strumpshaw Fen, Norfolk; 08/06/2008; male
§2 Thursley Common, Surrey; 16/06/2008; male
§3 New Forest, Hampshire; 29/05/2010; male
§4 Hollesley, Suffolk; 13/06/2011; male
§5 Mull; 01/07/2011
§6 ​Hanningfield, Essex; 19/06/2013; male; fw 15.2mm 
§7 Conwy Mountain, Caernarvonshire; 18/07/2015; female; fw 14.8mm; to light
​§8 New Forest, Hampshire; 20/06/2016; male; fw 16.0mm; to light
​§9 Cliburn Moss, Cumbria; 18/06/2019; female; fw 14.4mm; to light
All images © Chris Lewis
§10 Pound Wood, Essex; 01/06/2020; male; fw 14.9mm
§11 Pound Wood, Essex; 01/06/2020; male; fw 13.8mm
Page published 06/03/2014 (§1-5) | §6 added 26/04/2014 | §7 added 08/04/2016 | §8 added 21/05/2017 | §9 added 23/01/2020 |
​§10&11 added 20/01/2021