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Poplar Bent-wing

Phyllocnistis unipunctella

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 137, February 101, March 159, April 250, May 360, June 392, July 420, August 361, September 265, October 198, November 108, December 85.
United States2,835
Alaska2,835
United Kingdom32
England32
France24
Occitanie11
Germany7
Netherlands7
Finland6
Uusimaa4

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
FamilyLeaf Blotch Miner Moths · Gracillariidae
GenusPhyllocnistis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Poplar Bent-wing with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.