Small Grass Emerald

Chlorissa viridata

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae

Chlorissa viridata, the small grass emerald, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found from western Europe to the eastern Palearctic.

Distribution

Small Grass Emerald — (c) Дауд Арсанукаев, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Дауд Арсанукаев · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Netherlands · 58Germany · 32France · 25Luxembourg · 6Spain · 5United Kingdom · 5Belgium · 1Italy · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Дауд Арсанукаев, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Дауд Арсанукаев · CC-BY DescriptionChlorissa viridata, Wikipedia contributors

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