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Linda's Wainscot

Leucania linda

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

28 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 Virginia.January 12, February 13, March 14, April 23, May 29, June 15, July 12, August 12, September 14, October 13, November 10, December 11.
United States921
Virginia175
Maryland152
New York90
Ohio65
Canada58
Ontario58
West Virginia47
North Carolina38
New Jersey38

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
GenusLeucania

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Linda's Wainscot with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.