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Satin Lutestring

Tetheella fluctuosa

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

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 Alaska.January 1,324, February 978, March 1,532, April 2,411, May 3,476, June 3,790, July 4,056, August 3,488, September 2,561, October 1,911, November 1,045, December 816.
United States27,389
Alaska27,389
Germany76
United Kingdom68
Russia54
Finland47
England44
Poland41
Austria36
Steiermark33

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
FamilyHooktip and False Owlet Moths · Drepanidae
GenusTetheella

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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