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Rock Grayling

Hipparchia alcyone

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 1, May 0, June 64, July 341, August 303, September 61, October 8, November 1, December 0.
Spain779
United States275
Alaska275
Castilla y León200
Portugal179
Andalucía117
Galicia108
Comunidad de Madrid100
Aragón93
Castilla-La Mancha72

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
GenusHipparchia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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