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Marbled Underwing

Catocala marmorata

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 Illinois.January 2, February 3, March 4, April 7, May 11, June 5, July 4, August 4, September 4, October 4, November 2, December 2.
United States300
Illinois52
Kentucky48
Indiana43
Virginia31
North Carolina27
West Virginia20
South Carolina15
Georgia14
Maryland10

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