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Common Brown

Heteronympha merope

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 Australia.January 3,464, February 1,384, March 2,425, April 1,970, May 225, June 1, July 2, August 10, September 37, October 466, November 3,201, December 6,136.
Australia19,321
Victoria10,202
New South Wales4,673
South Australia2,193
Australian Capital Territory904
Tasmania663
Queensland499
Western Australia174
Other Territories13

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
GenusHeteronympha

Sources

Remember the name next time.

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