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Compressed Knucklehorn

Cladius compressicornis

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

24 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 Alaska.January 50, February 37, March 58, April 91, May 132, June 144, July 154, August 132, September 97, October 72, November 40, December 31.
United States1,041
Alaska1,038
Canada50
Alberta19
Nunavut19
Russia16
Moscow Oblast15
Denmark14
Nova Scotia12
Midtjylland10

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyCommon Sawflies · Tenthredinidae
GenusCladius

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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