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Green Garden Looper

Chrysodeixis eriosoma

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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 61, February 69, March 92, April 105, May 82, June 35, July 31, August 18, September 19, October 24, November 17, December 32.
Australia585
New Zealand506
Queensland236
Canterbury Region165
New South Wales149
Victoria125
China125
Auckland Region113
Wellington Region91
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region91

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
GenusChrysodeixis

Sources

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Practise Green Garden Looper 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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