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Pine Barrens Fan-foot

Zanclognatha martha

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) carterdorscht, no rights reserved (CC0)

26 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Massachusetts.January 3, February 3, March 3, April 5, May 9, June 4, July 25, August 4, September 4, October 4, November 3, December 3.
United States258
Massachusetts48
New Jersey44
New York32
Canada19
Texas18
North Carolina18
Louisiana16
Ontario11
Pennsylvania10

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
GenusZanclognatha

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Pine Barrens Fan-foot with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.