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Dusky Brocade

Apamea remissa

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 4,345, February 3,209, March 5,028, April 7,911, May 11,406, June 12,438, July 13,309, August 11,446, September 8,403, October 6,272, November 3,428, December 2,679.
United States89,885
Alaska89,875
United Kingdom189
England133
Canada95
Russia76
Scotland46
Saskatchewan35
Nunavut26
Denmark23

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
GenusApamea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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