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Echium Leaf Miner

Dialectica scalariella

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New Zealand.January 49, February 42, March 42, April 59, May 23, June 8, July 2, August 3, September 2, October 7, November 5, December 20.
New Zealand262
Auckland Region70
Portugal66
Australia65
Canterbury Region55
Spain49
France43
Waikato Region28
FARO27
New South Wales23

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
FamilyLeaf Blotch Miner Moths · Gracillariidae
GenusDialectica

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