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Olive Arta Moth

Arta olivalis

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

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 50, February 47, March 54, April 102, May 76, June 138, July 132, August 28, September 34, October 36, November 47, December 45.
United States2,074
Texas563
Alabama446
North Carolina225
Georgia124
New Jersey106
South Carolina98
Oklahoma92
Louisiana65
Mississippi55

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
FamilyPyralid Snout Moths · Pyralidae
GenusArta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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