Skip to content

Insects › Geometer Moths

Striped Twin-spot Carpet

Coenotephria salicata

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

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 Alaska.January 262, February 193, March 303, April 476, May 687, June 749, July 801, August 689, September 506, October 378, November 206, December 161.
United States5,412
Alaska5,412
Switzerland110
Graubünden28
Valais25
France21
Italy18
Basel-Landschaft14
United Kingdom12
Austria12

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
FamilyGeometer Moths · Geometridae
GenusCoenotephria

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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