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Southern Scurfy Quaker

Homorthodes lindseyi

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 Pennsylvania.January 4, February 5, March 6, April 10, May 31, June 7, July 5, August 14, September 6, October 6, November 4, December 4.
United States663
Pennsylvania78
New York75
Massachusetts67
Virginia65
Maryland54
New Jersey42
Connecticut40
North Carolina35
West Virginia32

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
GenusHomorthodes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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