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common flat-body

Agonopterix heracliana

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 1,420, February 1,049, March 1,644, April 2,586, May 3,728, June 4,065, July 4,350, August 3,741, September 2,747, October 2,050, November 1,120, December 876.
United States29,376
Alaska29,376
Finland101
Russia66
Sweden63
Skåne län59
United Kingdom57
England46
Pirkanmaa29
Denmark26

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
FamilyFlat-bodied moths · Depressariidae
GenusAgonopterix

Sources

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