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Southern Chocolate Angle

Macaria distribuaria

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 North Carolina.January 4, February 4, March 4, April 6, May 9, June 6, July 3, August 3, September 4, October 4, November 3, December 3.
United States341
North Carolina49
South Carolina41
Alabama37
Georgia31
Louisiana31
Texas13
Mississippi10
New Jersey9
Pennsylvania4

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
GenusMacaria

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Southern Chocolate Angle with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.