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Barred Yellow

Eurema daira

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mexico.January 202, February 104, March 154, April 129, May 101, June 104, July 175, August 234, September 179, October 224, November 271, December 209.
United States5,177
Mexico2,086
Jalisco515
Georgia330
Oaxaca279
Sinaloa237
Morelos171
Mississippi156
Nayarit156
Alabama136

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
FamilyWhites, Yellows, and Sulphurs · Pieridae
GenusGrass Yellows · Eurema

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