Grass emerald

Grass emerald
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Pseudoterpna
Species:	P. pruinata
Binomial name
Pseudoterpna pruinata (Hufnagel, 1767)[1]
Synonyms
Phalaena pruinata Hufnagel, 1767 Geometra cythisaria Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 Phalaena pruinaria Rottemburg, 1777 Phalaena (Geometra) genistaria Villers, 1789 Hemithea agrestaria Duponchel, 1829 Hemithea porracearia Boisduval, 1840 Phalaena (Geometra) viridisparsata Roquette, 1857 Aspilates atropunctaria Walker, [1863] Pseudoterpna pruinata ab. grisescens Reutti, 1898 Pseudoterpna pruinata var. virellata Krulikovsky, 1908 Pseudoterpna pruinata f. nigrolineata Schwingenschuss, 1918 Pseudoterpna pruinata f. candidata Stauder, 1920 Pseudoterpna pruinata var. holsatica Wagner, 1922 Pseudoterpna prinata ab. syltica Prout, 1934 Phalaena prasinaria Fabricius, 1775

The grass emerald (Pseudoterpna pruinata) is a species of moth. It occurs throughout central and south-eastern Europe (with the exception of the far north) and in Asia Minor and the Caucasus further east to the Urals and Siberia. It is fairly common throughout Great Britain with the exception of northern Scotland. In the southern Alps, it rises up to 1500 metres. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767.