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White-barred Gold

Micropterix aruncella

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) marina_gorbunova, 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 114, February 84, March 132, April 207, May 299, June 326, July 349, August 300, September 220, October 164, November 90, December 70.
United States2,355
Alaska2,355
United Kingdom175
England118
Russia83
Austria54
France53
Germany48
Scotland40
Moscow Oblast30

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
FamilyMicropterigidae
GenusMicropterix

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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