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Cream-spot Tiger

Arctia villica

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 199, February 147, March 230, April 362, May 522, June 569, July 609, August 524, September 384, October 287, November 157, December 123.
United States4,113
Alaska4,111
France2,619
Italy1,620
Occitanie832
Russia596
Spain589
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur585
Centro579
Nord-Ovest464

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
GenusArctia

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