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Nine-spotted

Amata phegea

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Erebidae

The nine-spotted moth or yellow belted burnet (Amata phegea, formerly Syntomis phegea) is a moth in the family Erebidae ("tiger moths"). The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Distribution and habitat The nine-spotted moth is chiefly found in southern Europe but also seen up to northern Germany, and in the east to Anatolia and the Caucasus, and there are some populations in the south-eastern Dutch nature reserves of Leudal and Meinweg.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 2,848Italy · 1,524Germany · 885Switzerland · 480France · 59Belgium · 6