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Delicate Cycnia Moth

Cycnia tenera

15,944 observations in the source records

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What the records say

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 96, February 95, March 128, April 223, May 384, June 188, July 141, August 146, September 150, October 138, November 94, December 87.
United States14,483
Canada2,204
New York1,853
Pennsylvania1,700
Ohio1,681
Maryland1,593
Ontario1,576
Virginia1,308
New Jersey674
Massachusetts535

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
GenusCycnia

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