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Little Cigarette Harlequin Moth

Atteva pustulella

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Argentina.January 46, February 61, March 94, April 62, May 31, June 5, July 2, August 9, September 15, October 19, November 15, December 24.
Argentina383
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires127
Mendoza78
Buenos Aires71
Córdoba67
Costa Rica64
Brazil58
Provincia Puntarenas47
Panama42
Colombia37

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
FamilyTropical Ermine Moths · Attevidae
GenusAtteva

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