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Sweetheart Underwing

Catocala amatrix

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 Ontario.January 54, February 55, March 87, April 171, May 329, June 154, July 116, August 248, September 416, October 90, November 56, December 50.
United States3,988
Canada1,614
Ontario1,379
New York768
Michigan548
Ohio340
Massachusetts261
Illinois246
Quebec193
Texas167

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
GenusUnderwing Moths · Catocala

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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