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Barred Sallow

Tiliacea aurago

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

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 2,131, February 1,574, March 2,466, April 3,879, May 5,593, June 6,099, July 6,526, August 5,613, September 4,121, October 3,076, November 1,681, December 1,314.
United States44,071
Alaska44,071
United Kingdom415
England410
Germany241
Saarland128
Switzerland92
Austria92
France89
Steiermark74

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
GenusTiliacea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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