Rhodometra sacraria inhabits meadows, forest clearing, paths, gardens and urban environments.
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Scopula sacraria is treated as a subspecies of Scopula confinaria by some authors. If sacraria is treated as a valid species, Scopula semitata is sometimes listed as a subspecies of it, rather than a separate species.
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The species is listed as a synonym or subspecies of S. sacraria by some authors.
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In males the antennae are bipectinated to three-fourths length. The hind tibiae bear two pairs of spurs."Rhodometra sacraria Linnaeus, 1767 ". India Biodiversity Portal.
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Rhodometra sacraria, the vestal, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae.
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It can be found throughout Europe, in the Near East, in North Africa, in the Afrotropical realm and in large parts of Asia."Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
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The intensity and the extent of the pink pigmentation is rather variable, depending on the seasonal temperature in the development of the pupae."Vestal". The Butterflies and Moths of Northern Ireland."Rhodometra sacraria (Linnaeus, 1767)". Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of Belgium.
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A sacrarium was a place where sacred objects (sacra) were stored or deposited for safekeeping.Ulpian, Digest I.8.9.2: sacrarium est locus in quo sacra reponuntur. The word can overlap in meaning with sacellum, a small enclosed shrine; the sacella of the Argei are also called sacraria.
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See sacellum for a list of sacraria. The sacrarium of a private home lent itself to Christian transformation, as a 4th-century poem by Ausonius demonstrates;R.P.H. Green, "The Christianity of Ausonius," Studia Patristica: Papers Presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 1991 (Peeters, 1993), vol. 28, pp.
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The upper storeys of the recesses serve as sacraria and have small, round apertures. The lower storey communicates with the upper storey by means of a square opening, covered by a removable stone slab. The barrel-vaulted roof of the church is supported on three arches. The iconostasis, as is evident from its remnants was of marble, with a royal door in the middle.
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Male showing bipectinated antennae Rhodometra sacraria has a wingspan reaching 22–28 mm, while the length of the forewings is 12–14 mm. The late generations are smaller and the wingspan has an average of 16–26 mm. These moths are easily distinguishable from the mahogany or pink stripe, located on yellowish or cream background, crossing diagonally the dorsal sides of the upperwings from the posterior margin up to the apex. Discal spots are usually present and have the same colour as the postmedial line.
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The rituals of the Argei were archaic religious observances in ancient Rome that took place on March 16 and March 17, and again on May 14 or May 15. By the time of Augustus, the meaning of these rituals had become obscure even to those who practiced them. For the May rites, a procession of pontiffs, Vestals, and praetors made its way around a circuit of 27 stations (sacella or sacraria), where at each they retrieved a figure fashioned into human form from rush, reed, and straw, resembling men tied hand and foot. After all the stations were visited, the procession, accompanied by the Flaminica Dialis in mourning guise, moved to the Pons Sublicius, the oldest known bridge in Rome, where the gathered figures were tossed into the Tiber River.
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