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Waved Black

Parascotia fuliginaria

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 1,313, February 970, March 1,520, April 2,391, May 3,447, June 3,759, July 4,022, August 3,459, September 2,540, October 1,896, November 1,036, December 810.
United States27,186
Alaska27,163
Russia194
Germany87
United Kingdom72
England72
Canada60
Finland60
France56
Denmark48

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
FamilyUnderwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
GenusParascotia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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