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Willow Beauty

Peribatodes rhomboidaria

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 19,632, February 14,500, March 22,718, April 35,741, May 51,533, June 56,194, July 60,131, August 51,712, September 37,966, October 28,339, November 15,486, December 12,103.
United States406,056
Alaska406,056
United Kingdom7,161
England6,748
France4,549
Germany2,889
Spain1,757
Austria1,699
Italy1,664
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes1,425

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
FamilyGeometer Moths · Geometridae
GenusPeribatodes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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