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Creaky Dart

Hemieuxoa rudens

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 74, February 71, March 181, April 152, May 93, June 68, July 41, August 42, September 50, October 53, November 69, December 67.
United States2,255
Texas837
California663
Arizona259
New Mexico247
Colorado78
Oklahoma65
Kansas55
Utah27
Nevada19

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
GenusHemieuxoa

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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