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Shuttle-shaped Dart

Agrotis puta

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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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 16,297, February 12,037, March 18,859, April 29,669, May 42,778, June 46,647, July 49,915, August 42,927, September 31,516, October 23,524, November 12,855, December 10,047.
United States337,072
Alaska337,072
United Kingdom5,820
England5,674
Portugal961
France847
Spain791
Germany506
FARO439
Denmark428

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
GenusAgrotis

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Sources

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

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