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Gold-specked Scutellerid

Diolcus chrysorrhoeus

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) alyssa_jc, 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 Texas.January 30, February 29, March 32, April 62, May 38, June 18, July 25, August 19, September 26, October 49, November 85, December 27.
United States525
Texas339
North Carolina28
Louisiana28
South Carolina26
Georgia22
Mississippi19
Alabama10
Arkansas3
Oklahoma3

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
FamilyJewel Bugs · Scutelleridae
GenusDiolcus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Gold-specked Scutellerid with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.