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Guava Moth

Ophiusa disjungens

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 Australia.January 83, February 64, March 61, April 99, May 59, June 54, July 61, August 54, September 21, October 88, November 43, December 47.
Australia734
Queensland510
New South Wales223
Hawaii196
United States114
China59
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region43
India14
Taiwan Province12
Taiwan12

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
GenusOphiusa

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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