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Elbow-striped Grass-veneer

Agriphila geniculea

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 761, February 562, March 881, April 1,386, May 1,998, June 2,179, July 2,331, August 2,005, September 1,472, October 1,099, November 600, December 469.
United States15,742
Alaska15,742
United Kingdom1,732
England1,714
France629
Germany475
Portugal277
Spain240
Switzerland219
Austria193

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
FamilyCrambid Snout Moths · Crambidae
GenusAgriphila

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Elbow-striped Grass-veneer with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.