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Plain Clay

Eugnorisma depuncta

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 905, February 668, March 1,047, April 1,648, May 2,376, June 2,590, July 2,772, August 2,384, September 1,750, October 1,306, November 714, December 558.
United States18,718
Alaska18,718
Austria153
Switzerland96
Steiermark60
United Kingdom55
Scotland53
France53
Graubünden41
Niederösterreich39

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
GenusEugnorisma

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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