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Lychnis

Hadena bicruris

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 2,833, February 2,092, March 3,278, April 5,158, May 7,437, June 8,109, July 8,677, August 7,462, September 5,479, October 4,090, November 2,235, December 1,747.
United States58,597
Alaska58,597
United Kingdom593
England477
Scotland72
France52
Wales43
Germany32
Denmark27
Spain25

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
GenusHadena

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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