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Striped Wainscot

Mythimna pudorina

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

24 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 537, February 397, March 622, April 978, May 1,410, June 1,538, July 1,645, August 1,415, September 1,039, October 775, November 424, December 331.
United States11,111
Alaska11,111
Germany89
Russia85
France50
Berlin49
Poland37
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast28
Île-de-France27
Denmark24

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
GenusMythimna

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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