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Brown Rustic

Rusina ferruginea

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 6,623, February 4,892, March 7,664, April 12,058, May 17,386, June 18,958, July 20,286, August 17,446, September 12,808, October 9,561, November 5,224, December 4,083.
United States136,990
Alaska136,990
United Kingdom507
England355
Denmark272
Germany225
France182
Spain157
Russia148
Austria132

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
GenusRusina

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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