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Brown-spot Pinion

Agrochola litura

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 273, February 202, March 316, April 497, May 717, June 782, July 837, August 720, September 528, October 394, November 216, December 168.
United States5,651
Alaska5,651
United Kingdom205
England152
Germany145
Austria138
Sweden137
Skåne län125
Denmark97
Finland69

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
GenusAgrochola

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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