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Lemon Plagodis Moth

Plagodis serinaria

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) dkelm, 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 New York.January 40, February 39, March 53, April 92, May 159, June 78, July 58, August 53, September 62, October 57, November 39, December 36.
United States2,749
Canada1,278
New York766
Quebec500
Ontario436
Vermont295
New Hampshire269
Massachusetts262
Nova Scotia209
Connecticut150

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
GenusPlagodis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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