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Turquoise Longtail

Urbanus evona

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 Texas.January 1, February 1, March 2, April 3, May 2, June 1, July 1, August 1, September 1, October 1, November 9, December 4.
United States16
Texas16
Mexico13
Nuevo Leon4
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave4
Colombia3
Tamaulipas2
Costa Rica2
Antioquia2
Provincia Puntarenas2

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
FamilySkippers · Hesperiidae
GenusUrbanus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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