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Dingy Footman

Eilema griseola

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 6,173, February 4,559, March 7,143, April 11,238, May 16,203, June 17,669, July 18,907, August 16,259, September 11,937, October 8,910, November 4,869, December 3,806.
United States127,673
Alaska127,673
United Kingdom2,479
England2,350
Russia638
France419
Germany242
Netherlands179
Wales120
Bretagne119

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
GenusEilema

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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