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Yellow Belle

Aspitates ochrearia

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 486, February 359, March 562, April 884, May 1,275, June 1,390, July 1,487, August 1,279, September 939, October 701, November 383, December 299.
United States10,043
Alaska10,043
Spain1,042
Portugal733
France649
Andalucía299
Occitanie248
Italy231
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur200
Comunidad de Madrid197

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
GenusAspitates

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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