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Hedge Rustic

Tholera cespitis

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 1,750, February 1,293, March 2,025, April 3,186, May 4,594, June 5,010, July 5,361, August 4,610, September 3,385, October 2,526, November 1,381, December 1,079.
United States36,200
Alaska36,200
Russia199
Finland160
Sweden93
Austria83
United Kingdom81
England75
France74
Germany61

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
GenusTholera

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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