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Small Dingy Tubic

Borkhausenia fuscescens

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 359, February 265, March 415, April 653, May 941, June 1,027, July 1,098, August 945, September 694, October 518, November 283, December 221.
United States7,418
Alaska7,418
Finland63
United Kingdom61
England59
Russia33
Germany29
Uusimaa18
Denmark17
Moscow Oblast16

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
FamilyConcealer Moths · Oecophoridae
GenusBorkhausenia

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