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Fulvous Clothes Moth

Tinea semifulvella

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 342, February 253, March 396, April 623, May 898, June 980, July 1,048, August 901, September 662, October 494, November 270, December 211.
United States7,078
Alaska7,078
United Kingdom73
Germany69
England54
Denmark24
Switzerland22
Bayern20
Russia17
France16

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
FamilyFungus Moths, Clothes Moths, & Allies · Tineidae
GenusTinea

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