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Banded Peacock

Anartia fatima

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 Costa Rica.January 554, February 434, March 425, April 194, May 124, June 184, July 274, August 213, September 161, October 187, November 285, December 359.
Costa Rica3,394
Mexico3,075
Panama2,026
Provincia Puntarenas1,116
Provincia Alajuela579
Oaxaca497
Provincia de Panamá465
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave436
Provincia Heredia432
Provincia Guanacaste418

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
GenusPeacock Butterflies · Anartia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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