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flounced chestnut

Agrochola helvola

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Noctuidae

Agrochola helvola, the flounced chestnut, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. The species is found in most of Europe, north to Scotland and Fennoscandia up to the Arctic Circle, south to Spain, Sicily (it is not found on Sardinia), Greece further east to the Middle East, Armenia, Asia Minor, western Turkestan and central Asia up to central Siberia.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Switzerland · 39France · 36Spain · 36Italy · 15