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Lydd Beauty

Peribatodes ilicaria

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 Portugal.January 1, February 4, March 39, April 145, May 115, June 68, July 24, August 49, September 84, October 118, November 5, December 1.
Portugal653
Spain500
France266
FARO139
Occitanie139
PORTO128
Castilla y León123
Andalucía119
LISBOA117
SETÚBAL60

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
FamilyGeometer Moths · Geometridae
GenusPeribatodes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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