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Grayling

Hipparchia semele

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 7,358, February 5,434, March 8,514, April 13,395, May 19,314, June 21,060, July 22,536, August 19,381, September 14,229, October 10,621, November 5,804, December 4,536.
United States152,182
Alaska152,182
Spain1,154
France1,147
United Kingdom828
England665
Italy625
Occitanie545
Germany346
Sweden329

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

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