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Maple Looper Moth

Parallelia bistriaris

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 69, February 71, March 112, April 220, May 422, June 381, July 455, August 179, September 142, October 116, November 72, December 65.
United States12,630
Canada3,547
Ontario1,769
New York1,678
Virginia1,203
North Carolina1,075
Maryland927
Ohio804
Massachusetts794
Quebec517

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
GenusParallelia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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