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Speckled Beauty

Fagivorina arenaria

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) babunco, 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 Switzerland.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 5, June 40, July 11, August 0, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Switzerland56
Italy40
Hungary24
Centro23
Solothurn20
France19
Basel-Landschaft11
Neuchâtel11
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes10
Austria9

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
GenusFagivorina

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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