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Marbled White-spot

Deltote pygarga

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 3,013, February 2,225, March 3,487, April 5,485, May 7,909, June 8,624, July 9,229, August 7,936, September 5,827, October 4,349, November 2,377, December 1,858.
United States62,319
Alaska62,319
Russia1,125
Germany724
France632
Spain604
Finland593
Austria535
United Kingdom446
England376

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
GenusDeltote

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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