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Little Longhorn

Cauchas fibulella

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

25 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.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 Alaska.January 109, February 80, March 126, April 198, May 286, June 312, July 334, August 287, September 211, October 157, November 86, December 67.
United States2,253
Alaska2,253
Russia101
Germany47
Austria42
United Kingdom41
England36
Poland31
Moscow Oblast29
Bayern21

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
FamilyFairy Moths · Adelidae
GenusCauchas

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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