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Warted Knot-horn

Acrobasis repandana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) cossus, 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 395, February 291, March 457, April 718, May 1,036, June 1,129, July 1,209, August 1,039, September 763, October 570, November 311, December 243.
United States8,161
Alaska8,161
Germany144
Saarland82
Netherlands80
France62
United Kingdom42
England42
Noord-Brabant34
Sachsen28

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
FamilyPyralid Snout Moths · Pyralidae
GenusAcrobasis

Sources

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