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Light Brocade

Lacanobia w-latinum

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 1,091, February 806, March 1,263, April 1,987, May 2,865, June 3,124, July 3,343, August 2,875, September 2,111, October 1,575, November 861, December 673.
United States22,574
Alaska22,574
United Kingdom727
England727
France397
Spain241
Russia151
Switzerland141
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur134
Ukraine123

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
GenusLacanobia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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