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Brown Argus

Aricia agestis

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 11,643, February 8,600, March 13,474, April 21,197, May 30,563, June 33,327, July 35,662, August 30,669, September 22,516, October 16,807, November 9,184, December 7,178.
United States240,820
Alaska240,819
France3,486
United Kingdom2,073
Germany2,065
England2,022
Italy1,769
Occitanie746
Nord-Ovest661
Greece587

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
FamilyGossamer-winged Butterflies · Lycaenidae
GenusAricia

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