Maltese bloom

Isturgia disputaria

Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Geometridae Genus: Isturgia

About

Isturgia disputaria, the Maltese bloom, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1858. It is found on the Canary Islands and Malta and in the Afrotropical realm, Asian Turkey, the Caucasus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Iraq.