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Godart’s Hawkmoth

Agrius godarti

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) ecosse28, 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.

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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 Australia.January 30, February 31, March 25, April 11, May 2, June 1, July 1, August 0, September 9, October 17, November 20, December 22.
Australia169
Queensland94
New South Wales47
Northern Territory13
Western Australia6
Victoria5
South Australia3
Australian Capital Territory1

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
FamilySphinx Moths · Sphingidae
GenusAgrius

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Godart’s Hawkmoth with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.