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Sri Lanka Plume Moth

Stenoptilodes taprobanes

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 Australia.January 17, February 33, March 24, April 33, May 18, June 21, July 18, August 17, September 18, October 12, November 6, December 18.
Australia235
Queensland151
New South Wales65
United States58
China32
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region24
Texas14
Louisiana14
India14
Victoria12

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
FamilyPlume Moths · Pterophoridae
GenusStenoptilodes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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