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Tansy Plume Moth

Gillmeria ochrodactyla

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 233, February 172, March 269, April 423, May 611, June 666, July 712, August 613, September 450, October 336, November 183, December 143.
United States4,811
Alaska4,811
Russia49
Germany34
Finland19
Moscow Oblast15
Denmark12
Sachsen12
United Kingdom10
Hovedstaden10

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
FamilyPlume Moths · Pterophoridae
GenusGillmeria

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