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Yellow-legged Centurion Fly

Sargus flavipes

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) dwa1955, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

20 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 Alaska.January 80, February 59, March 92, April 145, May 209, June 228, July 244, August 210, September 154, October 115, November 63, December 49.
United States1,649
Alaska1,649
United Kingdom8
Netherlands6
England5
Scotland2
Zuid-Holland2
Northern Ireland1
Sweden1
Skåne län1

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
OrderFlies · Diptera
FamilySoldier Flies · Stratiomyidae
GenusSargus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Yellow-legged Centurion Fly with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.