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Large Marble

Euchloe ausonides

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 76, February 56, March 88, April 139, May 200, June 218, July 234, August 201, September 148, October 110, November 60, December 47.
United States4,937
Canada3,776
Alaska1,578
British Columbia1,321
Alberta915
California836
Colorado735
Manitoba339
Idaho312
Nunavut297

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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