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Dark Brocade

Mniotype adusta

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 1,279, February 944, March 1,480, April 2,328, May 3,357, June 3,660, July 3,917, August 3,368, September 2,473, October 1,846, November 1,009, December 788.
United States26,448
Alaska26,448
Switzerland104
Austria85
Italy73
Graubünden49
Nord-Est47
France35
Tirol31
United Kingdom30

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
GenusMniotype

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Dark Brocade with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.