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Dark-bordered Granite

Digrammia neptaria

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 California.January 47, February 41, March 43, April 53, May 53, June 58, July 80, August 42, September 51, October 43, November 55, December 43.
United States1,317
Canada569
California522
Colorado228
Alberta189
British Columbia186
Wyoming114
Idaho81
Nevada81
Ontario56

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
FamilyGeometer Moths · Geometridae
GenusDigrammia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Dark-bordered Granite with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.