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Four-spotted Bird-dropping Moth

Tarache tetragona

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 19, February 18, March 20, April 38, May 23, June 14, July 39, August 26, September 29, October 14, November 17, December 17.
United States361
Texas210
Arizona112
Mexico32
Nuevo Leon16
New Mexico13
Mississippi7
Louisiana7
Sinaloa6
Oklahoma5

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
GenusTarache

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