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Lifted Owlet

Lesmone hinna

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

25 photos

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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 18, February 17, March 19, April 37, May 23, June 11, July 12, August 10, September 30, October 31, November 35, December 16.
United States370
Texas203
Alabama61
Mississippi32
Louisiana31
Georgia25
South Carolina9
Mexico8
Costa Rica4
Nuevo Leon3

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
FamilyUnderwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
GenusLesmone

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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