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Cleopatra Butterfly

Gonepteryx cleopatra

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 4, February 59, March 249, April 449, May 188, June 812, July 316, August 104, September 42, October 34, November 9, December 2.
France2,268
Spain1,862
Occitanie1,209
Italy994
Cataluña/Catalunya877
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur806
Greece605
Portugal462
Centro385
Croatia303

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
GenusBrimstones · Gonepteryx

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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