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Toltec Roadside-Skipper

Amblyscirtes tolteca

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 1, February 1, March 0, April 7, May 19, June 34, July 64, August 76, September 46, October 6, November 1, December 1.
Mexico256
Sinaloa141
United States101
Arizona101
Sonora32
Jalisco20
Baja California Sur14
Nayarit11
Oaxaca10
Yucatan10

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
FamilySkippers · Hesperiidae
GenusRoadside-Skippers · Amblyscirtes

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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