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Langmaid's Yellow Underwing

Noctua janthina

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 629, February 465, March 728, April 1,146, May 1,652, June 1,801, July 1,927, August 1,657, September 1,217, October 908, November 496, December 388.
United States13,014
Alaska13,014
France22
Germany17
Italy15
Austria15
Bulgaria11
Niederösterreich10
Czechia10
Centro9

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
GenusYellow Underwings · Noctua

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Langmaid's Yellow Underwing with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.