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Tropical Leafwing

Anaea aidea

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 Texas.January 130, February 124, March 141, April 268, May 164, June 80, July 72, August 74, September 88, October 194, November 403, December 195.
United States1,623
Texas1,473
Mexico1,469
Nuevo Leon284
Sinaloa144
Arizona120
Jalisco113
Guanajuato102
Baja California Sur100
Sonora99

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
GenusAnaea

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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