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White Tangle

Callopistria maillardi

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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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 14, February 22, March 27, April 38, May 14, June 18, July 13, August 6, September 2, October 2, November 3, December 8.
Australia167
Queensland115
New South Wales47
South Africa43
KwaZulu-Natal32
China16
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region11
India9
Mpumalanga8
Northern Territory5

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
GenusFern Moths · Callopistria

Sources

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

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