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European Peacock Butterfly

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 94,195, February 69,571, March 109,002, April 171,486, May 247,254, June 269,615, July 288,506, August 248,113, September 182,159, October 135,968, November 74,299, December 58,071.
United States1,948,271
Alaska1,948,239
United Kingdom20,280
England17,350
Germany15,895
Russia9,738
France5,554
Austria4,888
Czechia3,828
Poland3,573

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
FamilyBrush-footed Butterflies · Nymphalidae
GenusTortoiseshells · Aglais

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