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Gold-bent Midget

Phyllonorycter roboris

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 15, February 11, March 18, April 28, May 40, June 44, July 47, August 40, September 29, October 22, November 12, December 9.
United States315
Alaska315
Austria21
Germany16
France14
Russia11
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur10
Kärnten9
Moscow Oblast7
Bayern6

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
GenusPhyllonorycter

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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