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Ginger Button

Acleris aspersana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) evgeniy_marinkin, some rights reserved (CC BY)

24 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 261, February 192, March 302, April 474, May 684, June 746, July 798, August 686, September 504, October 376, November 206, December 161.
United States5,389
Alaska5,389
Russia50
Bashkortostan19
Moscow Oblast15
United Kingdom13
England12
Belgium5
Wallonne Gewest5
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast5

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
FamilyTortricid Leafroller Moths · Tortricidae
GenusAcleris

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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