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American Snout

Libytheana carinenta

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 Texas.January 1,322, February 1,265, March 1,437, April 2,726, May 1,670, June 811, July 729, August 753, September 1,240, October 3,218, November 2,649, December 1,203.
United States33,362
Texas16,398
Arizona4,778
Mexico2,132
Canada1,739
Ontario1,706
North Carolina1,213
Michigan1,156
Virginia1,021
Illinois1,015

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
FamilyBrush-footed Butterflies · Nymphalidae
GenusNew World Snouts · Libytheana

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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