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Fraternal Renia Moth

Renia fraternalis

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

25 photos

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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 Texas.January 4, February 4, March 5, April 9, May 6, June 3, July 2, August 3, September 3, October 3, November 4, December 4.
United States378
Texas51
North Carolina42
Louisiana35
Alabama33
South Carolina30
Mississippi25
Georgia16
New Jersey14
Tennessee13

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
FamilyUnderwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
GenusRenia Moths · Renia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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