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Thin-lined Owlet

Isogona tenuis

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 184, February 176, March 200, April 400, May 338, June 233, July 272, August 135, September 198, October 133, November 173, December 167.
United States4,313
Texas2,089
Oklahoma309
Alabama205
Missouri193
Louisiana154
Mississippi138
Ohio137
Virginia115
Tennessee107

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
FamilyUnderwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
GenusIsogona

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