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Yellow-banded Underwing

Catocala cerogama

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 45, February 46, March 72, April 142, May 273, June 128, July 96, August 322, September 91, October 75, November 47, December 42.
United States2,698
Canada1,433
Ontario1,143
New York631
Michigan453
Quebec271
Massachusetts200
Connecticut161
Ohio156
Wisconsin150

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