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Oak Yellow Underwing

Catocala nymphagoga

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in France.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 3, June 216, July 253, August 16, September 3, October 1, November 0, December 0.
France492
Spain415
Italy238
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur165
Centro156
Occitanie154
Greece129
Castilla y León118
Cataluña/Catalunya117
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes114

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
GenusUnderwing Moths · Catocala

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