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coastal flat-body

Agonopterix yeatiana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) guillaumedelporte, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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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 Alaska.January 91, February 67, March 105, April 165, May 238, June 260, July 278, August 239, September 176, October 131, November 72, December 56.
United States1,878
Alaska1,878
France21
Austria16
Steiermark15
United Kingdom13
England12
Netherlands12
Portugal9
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur9

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
FamilyFlat-bodied moths · Depressariidae
GenusAgonopterix

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise coastal flat-body with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.