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Scopula asellaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1847. It is found in southern Europe and North Africa.
The larvae feed on the flowers of Silene species.
From the western Mediterranean, it reaches the Italian coasts. In France, like G. rufomixtaria , it is located in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the Cévennes, the Ardèche, with an isolate in the Alpes-Maritimes. A little observed species, frequenting xeric sites with sparse vegetation, the steppe hills. The caterpillar, polyphagous, feeds on the dry parts of various plants: Gypsophila , Antirrhinum , Linaria .
