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Common Grass Yellow

Eurema hecabe

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 245, February 161, March 130, April 187, May 178, June 295, July 504, August 489, September 1,374, October 638, November 519, December 360.
India5,080
Australia3,391
Queensland2,482
Mahārāshtra1,442
China1,181
Singapore918
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region869
Karnātaka633
New South Wales587
Tamil Nādu551

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
FamilyWhites, Yellows, and Sulphurs · Pieridae
GenusGrass Yellows · Eurema

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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