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Common Evening Brown

Melanitis leda

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 India.January 386, February 264, March 210, April 208, May 256, June 285, July 247, August 222, September 626, October 1,251, November 1,177, December 579.
India5,711
Australia5,641
Queensland4,897
Mahārāshtra1,135
Karnātaka927
China911
Kerala782
New South Wales657
Taiwan534
Indonesia523

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
GenusEvening Browns · Melanitis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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