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oak marbled brown

Drymonia querna

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) bmarton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 286, February 211, March 331, April 521, May 751, June 818, July 876, August 753, September 553, October 413, November 226, December 176.
United States5,914
Alaska5,914
Spain401
Germany290
France229
Galicia180
Portugal164
Saarland143
Castilla y León80
Nouvelle-Aquitaine74

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
FamilyProminent Moths · Notodontidae
GenusDrymonia

Sources

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