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Close-banded Yellowhorn

Colocasia propinquilinea

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 69, February 68, March 92, April 161, May 276, June 135, July 102, August 93, September 108, October 99, November 68, December 63.
United States3,897
Canada1,439
New York1,333
Ontario1,040
Massachusetts510
Vermont441
Quebec338
Connecticut233
New Hampshire199
Pennsylvania186

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
FamilyCutworm Moths and Allies · Noctuidae
GenusYellowhorn Moths · Colocasia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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