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Purple Clay

Diarsia brunnea

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 4,543, February 3,355, March 5,257, April 8,270, May 11,924, June 13,003, July 13,914, August 11,966, September 8,785, October 6,557, November 3,583, December 2,801.
United States93,957
Alaska93,957
United Kingdom302
Germany190
England173
Austria137
Russia107
Finland106
Scotland103
Saarland103

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
GenusDiarsia

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