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Common Wainscot

Mythimna pallens

Classification

Class
Insecta
Family
Noctuidae

Mythimna pallens, the common wainscot, is a moth of the family Noctuidae distributed throughout the Palearctic realm from Ireland in the west, through Europe (all of Russia) to Central Asia and Amur to the Kuriles in the east. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. As with other "wainscots", this species has buffish-yellow forewings with prominent venation.

Distribution

Martien van den Heuvel · CC BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United Kingdom · 4,472Germany · 2,047Switzerland · 532Netherlands · 421France · 206Belgium · 204Luxembourg · 84Spain · 13