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Brown Oak Slender

Acrocercops brongniardella

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 264, February 195, March 306, April 481, May 694, June 756, July 809, August 696, September 511, October 381, November 208, December 163.
United States5,466
Alaska5,466
Russia224
Bashkortostan148
Finland146
United Kingdom115
England115
Finland Proper76
Sweden53
Uusimaa39

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
FamilyLeaf Blotch Miner Moths · Gracillariidae
GenusAcrocercops

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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