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Purple Treble-bar
Aplocera praeformata
The Purple Treble-bar (Aplocera praeformata) is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found from the Iberian Peninsula and France, through Western Europa, over Central Europa up to Russia. Its northernmost range is Southern Finland and the Baltic States. The subspecies Aplocera praeformata urbahni is found in Greece. In the Alps it is found to heights of up to 2,000 meters.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 483340.