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Youthful Underwing

Catocala subnata

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) nzmuth, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

27 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 22, February 21, March 29, April 51, May 87, June 43, July 32, August 29, September 34, October 31, November 21, December 20.
United States1,396
New York420
Canada399
Ontario330
Michigan146
Massachusetts144
Connecticut140
Ohio98
Vermont72
Quebec69

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