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Clancy's Rustic

Caradrina kadenii

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 Alaska.January 325, February 240, March 376, April 591, May 852, June 929, July 995, August 855, September 628, October 469, November 256, December 200.
United States6,716
Alaska6,716
United Kingdom156
England156
Germany107
France81
Hungary66
Austria58
Ukraine37
Spain33

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
GenusCaradrina

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Clancy's Rustic with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.