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Barred Red

Hylaea fasciaria

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 3,190, February 2,356, March 3,691, April 5,807, May 8,373, June 9,130, July 9,770, August 8,402, September 6,168, October 4,604, November 2,516, December 1,966.
United States65,973
Alaska65,973
United Kingdom223
Germany200
France173
Austria169
Denmark156
England144
Russia139
Spain122

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
FamilyGeometer Moths · Geometridae
GenusHylaea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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