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Sweet Broom Plume Moth

Stenoptilodes brevipennis

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 1, February 1, March 1, April 2, May 1, June 1, July 1, August 1, September 1, October 1, November 1, December 1.
United States52
Texas13
Mississippi11
Alabama5
Virginia4
Louisiana4
Maryland4
Massachusetts3
Georgia2
Oklahoma2

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
FamilyPlume Moths · Pterophoridae
GenusStenoptilodes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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