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Marbled Minor

Oligia strigilis

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

28 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 3,775, February 2,788, March 4,368, April 6,872, May 9,909, June 10,805, July 11,562, August 9,943, September 7,300, October 5,449, November 2,978, December 2,327.
United States78,256
Alaska78,077
United Kingdom176
England160
Austria160
Germany154
Russia149
Steiermark98
France93
Massachusetts87

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
GenusOligia

Sources

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