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Red Chestnut

Cerastis rubricosa

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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 4,335, February 3,202, March 5,017, April 7,892, May 11,380, June 12,409, July 13,278, August 11,419, September 8,384, October 6,258, November 3,420, December 2,673.
United States89,665
Alaska89,665
United Kingdom427
France259
England217
Bulgaria216
Russia202
Scotland190
Plovdiv187
Spain137

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
GenusCerastis

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