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Gold-dot Slender

Euspilapteryx auroguttella

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 163, February 121, March 189, April 297, May 428, June 467, July 500, August 430, September 316, October 236, November 129, December 101.
United States3,376
Alaska3,376
France49
Russia40
Germany35
Hungary30
Switzerland23
Austria23
United Kingdom21
England21

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
GenusEuspilapteryx

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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