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Spanish Fritillary

Euphydryas desfontainii

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 Spain.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 7, May 120, June 29, July 1, August 0, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Spain157
Cataluña/Catalunya45
France32
Occitanie32
Andalucía29
Castilla y León22
Aragón22
Comunidad Foral de Navarra15
Castilla-La Mancha11
Portugal9

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
GenusEuphydryas

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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