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Little Cosmet

Mompha raschkiella

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 440, February 325, March 509, April 800, May 1,154, June 1,258, July 1,346, August 1,158, September 850, October 634, November 347, December 271.
United States9,112
Alaska9,091
Canada88
United Kingdom63
England54
Finland44
Quebec29
Russia24
Ontario18
Nova Scotia12

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
FamilyMomphidae
GenusMompha

Sources

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Practise Little Cosmet with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.