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Mottled Prominent

Macrurocampa marthesia

8,811 observations in the source records

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What the records say

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 59, February 58, March 78, April 137, May 236, June 115, July 92, August 79, September 92, October 85, November 58, December 54.
United States7,696
New York1,137
Canada1,125
Ontario858
Massachusetts725
Virginia566
North Carolina536
Maryland483
Alabama397
Tennessee390

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilyProminent Moths · Notodontidae
GenusMacrurocampa

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