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Speckled Footman

Coscinia cribraria

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 1,077, February 795, March 1,246, April 1,960, May 2,826, June 3,082, July 3,298, August 2,836, September 2,082, October 1,554, November 849, December 664.
United States22,270
Alaska22,270
Spain441
Galicia200
Portugal167
France138
Finland88
Italy78
Russia77
Switzerland70

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
GenusCoscinia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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