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Chocolate Renia Moth

Renia nemoralis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) inbetweenbays, some rights reserved (CC BY)

26 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New Jersey.January 6, February 6, March 7, April 12, May 21, June 7, July 6, August 7, September 10, October 11, November 6, December 6.
United States347
New Jersey105
Maryland64
Delaware53
Massachusetts32
North Carolina21
New York12
Tennessee10
Virginia10
Pennsylvania8

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