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Beloved Emarginea Moth

Emarginea percara

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

24 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 150, February 143, March 256, April 309, May 194, June 143, July 150, August 132, September 272, October 140, November 141, December 136.
United States2,643
Texas1,701
Arizona382
Oklahoma130
Alabama109
Georgia66
North Carolina59
Mississippi50
South Carolina49
Louisiana36

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
GenusEmarginea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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