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Radford's Flame Shoulder Moth

Ochropleura leucogaster

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) hjrol, 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 Portugal.January 26, February 66, March 64, April 52, May 82, June 47, July 41, August 20, September 13, October 26, November 32, December 23.
Portugal492
Spain204
France145
FARO138
PORTO131
Italy95
SETÚBAL69
United Kingdom60
England60
País Vasco/Euskadi58

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
GenusOchropleura

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Radford's Flame Shoulder Moth with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.