Insects › Brush-footed Butterflies

Pointed Sister

Adelpha iphiclus

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 Ecuador.January 3, February 5, March 4, April 3, May 1, June 2, July 6, August 3, September 2, October 7, November 12, December 8.
Ecuador56
Brazil44
Orellana29
Mato Grosso26
Peru22
Costa Rica19
Panama18
Colombia16
Loreto11
Napo11

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
FamilyBrush-footed Butterflies · Nymphalidae
GenusSisters · Adelpha

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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