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Oriental Eight-spot

Amyna axis

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 33, February 31, March 54, April 31, May 13, June 11, July 17, August 21, September 11, October 11, November 5, December 14.
Australia252
United States240
Queensland227
South Africa60
China44
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region42
North Carolina41
South Carolina41
Canada28
Louisiana28

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
GenusAmyna

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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