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Plumed Fan-foot

Pechipogo plumigeralis

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

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	4,403
Alaska	4,403
France	296
Italy	246
Spain	190
United Kingdom	141
England	141
Portugal	106
Austria	94
Occitanie	88

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

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Arthropods · Arthropoda
Class	Insects · Insecta
Order	Butterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
Family	Underwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
Genus	Pechipogo

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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