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Broad Damsel Bug

Nabis flavomarginatus

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

28 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 241, February 178, March 278, April 438, May 632, June 689, July 737, August 634, September 465, October 347, November 190, December 148.
United States4,987
Alaska4,976
Finland225
Russia135
United Kingdom133
England88
Uusimaa83
Denmark80
Germany65
Finland Proper61

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderTrue Bugs, Hoppers, Aphids, and allies · Hemiptera
FamilyDamsel Bugs · Nabidae
GenusNabis

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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