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Spotted Spragueia

Spragueia guttata

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 102, February 98, March 111, April 211, May 129, June 92, July 159, August 135, September 234, October 198, November 96, December 93.
United States1,171
Texas1,161
Mexico95
Chihuahua41
Nuevo Leon19
Yucatan11
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave8
Oklahoma4
Louisiana4
Jalisco3

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
GenusSpragueia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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