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Variegated Fritillary

Euptoieta claudia

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 1,729, February 1,654, March 1,879, April 4,658, May 2,607, June 1,329, July 954, August 984, September 1,169, October 2,659, November 1,622, December 1,572.
United States58,615
Texas22,516
Virginia3,639
Maryland3,523
North Carolina3,284
Canada2,323
Oklahoma2,039
Colorado1,873
Arizona1,757
Tennessee1,710

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
FamilyBrush-footed Butterflies · Nymphalidae
GenusEuptoieta

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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