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Hairy Darkling Beetle

Lagria villosa

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) xiongbobai, 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.

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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 Brazil.January 177, February 119, March 121, April 302, May 191, June 142, July 131, August 125, September 107, October 156, November 156, December 160.
Brazil1,887
Sao Paulo556
Minas Gerais270
Rio de Jeneiro213
Argentina201
Parana163
Distrito Federal148
Espirito Santo140
Rio Grande do Sul113
Córdoba89

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
FamilyDarkling Beetles · Tenebrionidae
GenusLagria

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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