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Concolorous

Photedes extrema

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) j4n_w, 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 338, February 250, March 391, April 616, May 888, June 968, July 1,036, August 891, September 654, October 488, November 267, December 208.
United States6,995
Alaska6,995
Russia23
Hungary9
Germany8
Bryansk Oblast7
Moscow Oblast7
Niedersachsen4
Yaroslavl Oblast4
France3

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
GenusPhotedes

Sources

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