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Bent-lined Dart

Choephora fungorum

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 Virginia.January 59, February 63, March 69, April 114, May 147, June 73, July 59, August 57, September 69, October 388, November 86, December 54.
United States6,053
Virginia883
Texas675
Maryland673
North Carolina566
Georgia310
Ohio283
Tennessee281
Alabama213
Kentucky211

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
FamilyCutworm Moths and Allies · Noctuidae
GenusChoephora

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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