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Far Eastern Large Skipper

Ochlodes venatus

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 Japan.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 0, July 21, August 2, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Japan23
Hokkaido12
Russia10
China7
Primorsky Krai6
Gunma5
Nagano4
Khabarovsk Krai4
Fukushima2
Zhejiang Province2

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
FamilySkippers · Hesperiidae
GenusOchlodes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Far Eastern Large Skipper with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.