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Small Purple-barred

Phytometra viridaria

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 316, February 234, March 366, April 576, May 830, June 905, July 969, August 833, September 612, October 457, November 249, December 195.
United States6,543
Alaska6,542
Austria316
France223
Spain162
Italy141
Steiermark89
Germany87
Hungary84
Niederösterreich83

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
FamilyUnderwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
GenusPhytometra

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