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Goodell's Arches Moth

Orthodes goodelli

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

27 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.

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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 5, February 5, March 8, April 16, May 31, June 15, July 11, August 10, September 11, October 9, November 5, December 5.
United States541
Canada316
Ontario132
Michigan80
Alberta74
New York73
Pennsylvania43
Ohio41
North Carolina41
Nunavut40

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
GenusOrthodes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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