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Leconte's Haploa Moth

Haploa lecontei

9,719 observations in the source records

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
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28 photos

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What the records say

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 Ontario.January 94, February 97, March 153, April 299, May 575, June 308, July 539, August 184, September 193, October 158, November 99, December 88.
United States7,830
Canada3,949
Ontario2,413
New York871
Wisconsin691
Illinois659
Quebec653
North Carolina563
Tennessee558
Michigan544

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
FamilyUnderwing, Tiger, Tussock, and Allied Moths · Erebidae
GenusHaploa

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Leconte's Haploa Moth with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.