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Small Elephant Hawk-moth

Deilephila porcellus

Classification

Class
Insecta

Deilephila porcellus, the small elephant hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Distribution It is found in Europe, North Africa and West Asia.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Netherlands · 3,329Germany · 3,180France · 1,516Switzerland · 1,355United Kingdom · 1,102Spain · 368Italy · 207Luxembourg · 49Belgium · 19