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Brown-line Bright-eye

Mythimna conigera

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 3,647, February 2,694, March 4,220, April 6,640, May 9,573, June 10,439, July 11,171, August 9,607, September 7,053, October 5,265, November 2,877, December 2,248.
United States75,434
Alaska75,434
Russia306
United Kingdom304
England270
France225
Switzerland177
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes109
Finland101
Germany89

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
GenusMythimna

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Brown-line Bright-eye with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.