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False Grayling

Arethusana arethusa

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 France.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 1, July 46, August 344, September 37, October 0, November 0, December 0.
France428
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur196
Spain132
Russia122
Occitanie115
Hungary95
Greece90
Austria78
Epirus-Western Macedonia77
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes74

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
GenusArethusana

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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