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Hook-tipped Grass-veneer

Platytes alpinella

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 318, February 235, March 368, April 580, May 836, June 911, July 975, August 839, September 616, October 460, November 251, December 196.
United States6,586
Alaska6,586
Russia55
Poland41
Germany40
France37
Netherlands23
Ukraine23
Spain20
Occitanie19

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
FamilyCrambid Snout Moths · Crambidae
GenusPlatytes

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