Agriopis leucophaearia

Agriopis leucophaearia, the spring usher, is a moth of the family Geometridae.

It is a Palearctic species found from Europe, Turkey and Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, the European Central Black Earth, Central European, European southern taiga, the Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Mid-Volzhsky., mainly in oak forests and in heathland with low-growing oaks.

Some individuals may be more dark (brown and black stains) and there are named variants.

The rather stout larva is green with yellow lines and brown dorsal blotches[2][3] A. leucophaearia is extremely variable.Nearest to Agriopis bajaria (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (forewing of male with distal margin straighter, hindwing with costal margin relatively less long; ground-colour generally whiter.

Antennal pectinations shorter, ending in longer cilia).In the east Palearctic it is replaced by Agriopis dira (Butler, 1878) - Amur, Primorye, Japan, NE.China.