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Olympia Marble

Euchloe olympia

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) kathy_bill, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

28 photos

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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 Ontario.January 52, February 54, March 85, April 166, May 319, June 150, July 113, August 102, September 107, October 88, November 55, December 49.
United States2,643
Canada1,626
Ontario1,338
Michigan487
New York323
Minnesota279
Wisconsin205
Texas180
Illinois179
Colorado176

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
GenusDappled Whites · Euchloe

Sources

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

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