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Common Cloaked Shoot

Gypsonoma dealbana

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

25 photos

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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 511, February 377, March 591, April 930, May 1,341, June 1,462, July 1,564, August 1,345, September 988, October 737, November 403, December 315.
United States10,563
Alaska10,563
Germany174
United Kingdom123
England120
Netherlands118
Russia54
France40
Belgium40
Saarland39

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
FamilyTortricid Leafroller Moths · Tortricidae
GenusGypsonoma

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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