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Pretty Chalk Carpet

Melanthia procellata

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 603, February 446, March 698, April 1,098, May 1,584, June 1,727, July 1,848, August 1,589, September 1,167, October 871, November 476, December 372.
United States12,478
Alaska12,478
Austria256
Germany128
Switzerland118
United Kingdom108
France108
England103
Denmark98
Spain82

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
FamilyGeometer Moths · Geometridae
GenusMelanthia

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