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Frosted Green

Polyploca ridens

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 747, February 551, March 864, April 1,359, May 1,960, June 2,137, July 2,287, August 1,966, September 1,444, October 1,078, November 589, December 460.
United States15,441
Alaska15,441
France306
United Kingdom295
England280
Germany154
Switzerland104
Italy80
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes76
Saarland75

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
FamilyHooktip and False Owlet Moths · Drepanidae
GenusPolyploca

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