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Small Dotted Buff

Photedes minima

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

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 3,270, February 2,415, March 3,784, April 5,954, May 8,584, June 9,361, July 10,017, August 8,614, September 6,324, October 4,721, November 2,580, December 2,016.
United States67,641
Alaska67,641
United Kingdom120
England91
Belgium23
Wallonne Gewest21
Scotland20
Denmark16
Sweden14
Spain12

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
GenusPhotedes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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