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Hourglass Plume Moth

Michaelophorus indentatus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 12, February 11, March 13, April 24, May 15, June 7, July 7, August 7, September 8, October 27, November 15, December 11.
United States170
Texas133
Mexico85
Nuevo Leon35
Arizona25
Sinaloa24
New Mexico14
Brazil14
Quintana Roo10
Oklahoma6

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
FamilyPlume Moths · Pterophoridae
GenusMichaelophorus

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