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Mountain Clouded Yellow

Colias phicomone

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Italy.January 0, February 0, March 1, April 0, May 0, June 14, July 122, August 78, September 0, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Italy215
France208
Switzerland145
Nord-Ovest137
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur118
Nord-Est78
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes69
Graubünden55
Austria49
Valais48

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
GenusClouded Yellows · Colias

Sources

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