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Marbled Knot-horn

Acrobasis marmorea

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) keithlangdon, 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 76, February 56, March 87, April 138, May 198, June 216, July 231, August 199, September 146, October 109, November 60, December 47.
United States1,563
Alaska1,563
France110
Spain46
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur31
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes29
País Vasco/Euskadi22
Île-de-France16
Occitanie15
Hungary15

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
FamilyPyralid Snout Moths · Pyralidae
GenusAcrobasis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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