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Spanish Festoon

Zerynthia rumina

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) serradura, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.January 62, February 174, March 569, April 1,171, May 581, June 76, July 3, August 2, September 15, October 26, November 22, December 22.
Spain2,723
Andalucía1,212
France1,094
Portugal1,058
Occitanie735
Comunidad de Madrid392
Castilla y León376
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur312
FARO301
Cataluña/Catalunya213

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
FamilySwallowtails and Parnassians · Papilionidae
GenusFestoons · Zerynthia

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Sources

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

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