Earophila badiata, the shoulder stripe, is a moth of the family Geometridae.

It is found from most of Europe and North Africa to the Altai Mountains in the east Palearctic.

alpestris Neuburger, from the Tyrol, (at 3400 m) has the median area brown, the distal moderately darkened with no pale part and the hindwing also somewhat browner; in ab.

subbadiata Strand the median band is pale, narrow, interrupted in the middle, the posterior part sometimes broken up into spots.

The Larva is elongate, cylindrical; head rounded, distinct, orange with a large black spot on side; body very variable in colour dorsally, green, purple or slaty grey, a dark spot on side of prothoracic leg, another dorsally on the 10th abdominal segment, dorsal tubercles white, lateral tubercles black.The rather stout pupa is dark glossy red-brown, the anal segment black, the cremaster short and thick.