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Slender Flower Moth

Schinia gracilenta

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 49, February 47, March 53, April 100, May 62, June 30, July 27, August 28, September 360, October 93, November 46, December 44.
United States831
Texas553
Oklahoma65
Mississippi64
Louisiana34
Kansas20
Missouri16
New York10
Alabama9
Massachusetts9

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
FamilyCutworm Moths and Allies · Noctuidae
GenusSchinia

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