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Pleurota pyropella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Oecophoridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Pleurota

Pleurota pyropella

Pleurota pyropella is a moth of the Oecophoridae family. It is found in Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Albania, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, as well as on Corsica, Sicily, Cyprus and Crete. Outside of the Europe, the range extends to the eastern Palearctic. The species is also present in the Near East and North Africa.

Subspecies

  • Pleurota pyropella pyropella
  • Pleurota pyropella candia Back, 1973
  • Pleurota pyropella siciliana Back, 1973 (Sicily)
  • Pleurota pyropella idalia Meyrick, 1923 (Cyprus)
  • Pleurota pyropella semicanella Constant, 1885 (Corsica)
  • References

    Pleurota pyropella Wikipedia