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Death's-head Hawk-moth

Acherontia atropos

Classification

Class
Insecta

Acherontia atropos, the African death's-head hawkmoth, is the most widely recognized of three species within the genus Acherontia (the other two being Acherontia lachesis and Acherontia styx). It is most commonly identified by the vaguely skull-shaped pattern adorning the thorax, the characteristic from which its common and scientific names are derived. The species was first given its scientific name by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

Distribution

Sander Pieterse · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
France · 827Spain · 802Netherlands · 571Germany · 415Italy · 358Switzerland · 318United Kingdom · 65Belgium · 6Luxembourg · 2