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Oak Hook-tip

Watsonalla binaria

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 4,149, February 3,064, March 4,801, April 7,553, May 10,890, June 11,875, July 12,707, August 10,928, September 8,023, October 5,989, November 3,273, December 2,558.
United States85,810
Alaska85,810
France724
Germany626
Austria527
United Kingdom502
England493
Steiermark349
Switzerland279
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes211

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
FamilyHooktip and False Owlet Moths · Drepanidae
GenusWatsonalla

Sources

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