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Flowing-lined Snout

Hypena manalis

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

28 photos

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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 26, February 27, March 43, April 84, May 160, June 125, July 126, August 125, September 54, October 44, November 28, December 25.
United States3,481
Canada736
Ontario673
New York458
Virginia345
Maryland292
Massachusetts270
Michigan231
Ohio198
West Virginia178

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
GenusHypena

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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