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Minor Shoulder-knot

Brachylomia viminalis

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 1,955, February 1,444, March 2,262, April 3,559, May 5,132, June 5,596, July 5,988, August 5,150, September 3,781, October 2,822, November 1,542, December 1,205.
United States40,438
Alaska40,438
Russia185
Switzerland105
France92
United Kingdom81
Kirov Oblast71
Denmark48
Valais44
Austria43

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
GenusBrachylomia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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