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July Belle

Scotopteryx luridata

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

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 Alaska.January 310, February 229, March 358, April 564, May 813, June 887, July 949, August 816, September 599, October 447, November 244, December 191.
United States6,406
Alaska6,406
United Kingdom65
France43
England37
Russia31
Spain20
Italy19
Wales14
Occitanie14

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
GenusScotopteryx

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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