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Owen's Angle

Macaria oweni

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) cbuelow45, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Ontario.January 6, February 6, March 9, April 18, May 34, June 16, July 12, August 11, September 11, October 9, November 6, December 5.
Canada452
United States183
Ontario142
Quebec123
Nova Scotia80
Michigan60
New Brunswick46
Minnesota38
Newfoundland and Labrador31
New Hampshire23

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