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Woodland Grayling

Hipparchia fagi

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 France.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 0, May 0, June 61, July 179, August 151, September 66, October 13, November 0, December 0.
France470
Italy464
Nord-Ovest217
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur177
Spain148
Nord-Est141
Occitanie130
Hungary120
Cataluña/Catalunya109
Croatia94

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
GenusHipparchia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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