Skip to content

Insects › Tortricid Leafroller Moths

White Cloaked Shoot

Gypsonoma sociana

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) konrad_k, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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 147, February 108, March 170, April 267, May 385, June 419, July 449, August 386, September 283, October 212, November 116, December 90.
United States3,031
Alaska3,031
Germany21
Hungary20
Austria19
France18
Russia17
Pest16
United Kingdom15
England14

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
FamilyTortricid Leafroller Moths · Tortricidae
GenusGypsonoma

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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