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Maple Prominent

Ptilodon cucullina

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) aeithalis, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 639, February 472, March 739, April 1,163, May 1,677, June 1,828, July 1,956, August 1,682, September 1,235, October 922, November 504, December 394.
United States13,211
Alaska13,211
Austria496
Steiermark335
France295
Germany279
Switzerland182
Italy116
Hungary86
Saarland78

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
FamilyProminent Moths · Notodontidae
GenusPtilodon

Sources

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