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Mexican Yellow

Eurema mexicana

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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 Arizona.January 125, February 114, March 151, April 200, May 183, June 89, July 110, August 150, September 108, October 165, November 97, December 109.
United States3,004
Arizona1,590
Texas989
Mexico329
New Mexico238
Oklahoma78
Colorado48
Kansas48
Nuevo Leon44
Oaxaca39

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
GenusGrass Yellows · Eurema

Sources

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

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