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

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

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Small Grass Emerald

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