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Tailless Scrub-Hairstreak

Strymon cestri

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 Mexico.January 8, February 3, March 11, April 12, May 13, June 17, July 14, August 31, September 13, October 10, November 9, December 10.
Mexico151
Brazil78
Queretaro de Arteaga55
Sao Paulo45
Argentina38
Colombia19
Jalisco14
Michoacan de Ocampo13
Guanajuato12
Oaxaca12

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
GenusScrub-Hairstreaks · Strymon

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Tailless Scrub-Hairstreak with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.