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Pink-banded Sallow

Xanthia tatago

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

28 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 17, February 18, March 28, April 55, May 105, June 49, July 37, August 34, September 127, October 77, November 18, December 16.
Canada1,482
United States780
Ontario441
Quebec278
Alaska270
Nunavut229
Alberta227
New York144
British Columbia90
Minnesota69

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
GenusXanthia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Pink-banded Sallow with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.