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Middle Eastern Flower Scarab

Oxythyrea cinctella

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

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Greece.January 0, February 2, March 37, April 259, May 308, June 80, July 10, August 3, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Greece699
Crete223
Turkey219
Egean161
Macedonia-Thrace134
Peloponisos-W. Greece & Ionian117
Russia65
Uzbekistan62
Dagestan56
Muğla50

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

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderBeetles · Coleoptera
FamilyScarabs · Scarabaeidae
GenusOxythyrea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Middle Eastern Flower Scarab with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.