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Spotted Black Pigmy

Ectoedemia subbimaculella

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 130, February 96, March 150, April 236, May 340, June 371, July 397, August 341, September 251, October 187, November 102, December 80.
United States2,680
Alaska2,680
United Kingdom13
England13
Netherlands3
Zuid-Holland3
Ireland3
Connacht3
France1
Italy1

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
FamilyPygmy Eye-capped Moths · Nepticulidae
GenusEctoedemia

Sources

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