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Poinciana Looper

Pericyma cruegeri

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 70, February 110, March 132, April 71, May 24, June 4, July 6, August 9, September 18, October 28, November 24, December 48.
Australia544
Queensland454
New South Wales67
China65
Thailand47
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region37
India32
Chiang Mai Province25
Taiwan Province23
Taiwan23

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
GenusPericyma

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