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Common Fruit-piercing Moth

Eudocima phalonia

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 India.January 18, February 9, March 2, April 3, May 5, June 25, July 82, August 80, September 93, October 147, November 82, December 45.
India591
Australia530
Queensland434
China338
Malaysia245
Thailand176
Pahang148
Karnātaka146
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region141
Singapore119

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
GenusFruit-piercing Moths · Eudocima

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Common Fruit-piercing Moth with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.