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Clymene Moth

Haploa clymene

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 New York.January 103, February 102, March 137, April 240, May 412, June 201, July 295, August 168, September 161, October 148, November 101, December 94.
United States12,311
New York1,990
Canada1,371
Ontario1,221
Ohio961
Massachusetts889
Pennsylvania824
Virginia798
Maryland689
Tennessee600

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
GenusHaploa

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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