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Western Dappled White

Euchloe crameri

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 Spain.January 10, February 93, March 260, April 386, May 322, June 63, July 3, August 1, September 2, October 0, November 0, December 0.
Spain1,140
France475
Comunidad de Madrid375
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur236
Andalucía228
Cataluña/Catalunya201
Portugal199
Occitanie186
Castilla y León150
Extremadura83

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
GenusDappled Whites · Euchloe

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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