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White Angled-Sulphur

Anteos clorinde

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 53, February 65, March 92, April 90, May 49, June 82, July 196, August 175, September 88, October 119, November 63, December 38.
Mexico1,110
United States339
Brazil294
Texas253
Colombia227
Costa Rica185
Sinaloa147
Jalisco105
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave101
Oaxaca92

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
GenusAngled Sulphurs · Anteos

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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