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Dogwood Spindler

Allantus melanarius

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

13 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 Austria.January 0, February 0, March 0, April 1, May 1, June 1, July 0, August 0, September 1, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Austria4
France2
Oberösterreich2
Steiermark2
Spain1
Principado de Asturias1
Germany1
Italy1
Netherlands1
Poland1

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
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyCommon Sawflies · Tenthredinidae
GenusAllantus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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