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Small Grass Shieldbug

Neottiglossa pusilla

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) kaspermalmberg, some rights reserved (CC BY)

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.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 Alaska.January 255, February 188, March 295, April 464, May 668, June 729, July 780, August 671, September 492, October 368, November 201, December 157.
United States5,267
Alaska5,267
Russia189
Finland158
Germany61
France57
Uusimaa48
Finland Proper45
Poland45
Moscow Oblast34

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
FamilyStink Bugs · Pentatomidae
GenusNeottiglossa

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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