Pease Blossom

Periphanes delphinii

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae

Periphanes is a monotypic genus of moth in the family Noctuidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1821. Its only species, Periphanes delphinii, the pease blossom, was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It can be found from Afghanistan and the steppe areas of Central Asia and Anatolia up to the area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea and north-western Africa.

Distribution

Pease Blossom — (c) Максим Шумских, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Максим Шумских · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Spain · 8France · 3

Sources and credits

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