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Beautiful Brocade

Lacanobia contigua

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 831, February 614, March 961, April 1,513, May 2,181, June 2,378, July 2,545, August 2,188, September 1,607, October 1,199, November 655, December 512.
United States17,184
Alaska17,184
Russia194
Austria165
Poland100
Steiermark82
Switzerland80
Bashkortostan49
Ukraine28
Finland27

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
GenusLacanobia

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