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Barred Hook-tip

Watsonalla cultraria

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

24 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 706, February 522, March 817, April 1,286, May 1,854, June 2,022, July 2,164, August 1,861, September 1,366, October 1,020, November 557, December 436.
United States14,611
Alaska14,611
Austria581
Germany553
Steiermark422
Saarland318
Switzerland222
United Kingdom96
England91
Hungary80

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
FamilyHooktip and False Owlet Moths · Drepanidae
GenusWatsonalla

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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