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Small Emerald

Hemistola chrysoprasaria

Classification

Class
Insecta

Hemistola chrysoprasaria, the small emerald, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species can be found in all Europe including the Iberian Peninsula and Russia East to the Ural Mountains, North Africa, Asia Minor, Transcaucasia and the mountains of Eastern Asia (Russian Far East, Siberia), (Amur, Ussuri) and China Tian Shan (as form lissas) Description The wingspan is 28–32 mm. Both forewings and hindwings are light-green coloured, but fade with increasing life span to yellow-green to yellow-white.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 682Germany · 380Netherlands · 285France · 205Switzerland · 174Italy · 75Spain · 37Luxembourg · 22Belgium · 20