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Girlfriend Underwing

Catocala amica

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 Ontario.January 22, February 23, March 36, April 70, May 134, June 63, July 47, August 43, September 45, October 37, November 23, December 21.
United States4,460
Canada585
Ontario562
New York527
Texas513
Massachusetts453
Michigan407
Connecticut277
Illinois254
Pennsylvania200

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
GenusUnderwing Moths · Catocala

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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