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Yellow-banded Pyrausta

Pyrausta pseuderosnealis

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 Texas.January 88, February 84, March 95, April 199, May 179, June 108, July 110, August 54, September 59, October 63, November 82, December 80.
United States1,157
Texas995
Oklahoma73
Mississippi24
Louisiana21
Missouri13
Alabama11
New Mexico4
Colorado4
Georgia2

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
FamilyCrambid Snout Moths · Crambidae
GenusMint Moths · Pyrausta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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