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Tawny Marbled Minor

Oligia latruncula

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 3,704, February 2,736, March 4,286, April 6,743, May 9,723, June 10,602, July 11,345, August 9,757, September 7,163, October 5,347, November 2,922, December 2,284.
United States76,754
Alaska76,611
United Kingdom156
England153
France139
Russia132
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes105
Germany78
New York59
Finland45

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
FamilyCutworm Moths and Allies · Noctuidae
GenusOligia

Sources

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