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Green Grass-dart

Ocybadistes walkeri

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) vjmachs, 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 Australia.January 901, February 1,314, March 1,392, April 946, May 195, June 14, July 9, August 59, September 333, October 979, November 1,017, December 769.
Australia7,928
Victoria3,937
New South Wales1,638
Queensland1,113
South Australia912
Australian Capital Territory237
Tasmania58
Northern Territory33

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
GenusOcybadistes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Green Grass-dart with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.