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Cercyonis
''Cercyonis'' is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae found in North America. They are commonly called wood-nymphs or wood nymphs. Species Listed alphabetically: at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *''Cercyonis pegala'' (Fabricius, 1775) – common wood-nymph or large wood-nymph *''Cercyonis meadii'' (Edwards, 1872) – red-eyed wood-nymph or Mead's wood-nymph *''Cercyonis sthenele'' (Boisduval, 1852) – Great Basin wood-nymph *''Cercyonis oetus'' (Boisduval, 1869) – dark wood-nymph or small wood-nymph References * Brock, J.P and Kaufman K. (2003) ''Kaufman Guide to Butterflies of North Am ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cercyonis Pegala
The common wood-nymph (''Cercyonis pegala'') is a North American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is also known as the wood-nymph, grayling, blue-eyed grayling, and the goggle eye. Description The common wood-nymph can vary greatly. All individuals are brown with two eyespots on each forewing – the lower one often being larger than the upper one. Some may have many, few, or no eyespots on the ventral surface of the hindwing. In the southeastern part of its range, it has a large yellow patch on both surfaces of the forewing. In the western part of its range, it may have a pale yellow patch or may be lacking one. Individuals in the Northeast also lack the yellow patch, i.e., ''C. p. nephele''. In individuals with no yellow patch, there are two pale yellow eye rings that encircle both the forewing eyespots. The wingspan measures 5.3 to 7.3 cm (2.1 to 2.9 in). These butterflies have ears on their forewings that are most sensitive to low frequency sounds (l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cercyonis Meadii
''Cercyonis meadii'', or Mead's wood nymph, is a species of brush-footed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by William Henry Edwards in 1872 and it is found in North America. The MONA or Hodges number for ''Cercyonis meadii'' is 4588. Subspecies Four subspecies belong to ''Cercyonis meadii'': * ''Cercyonis meadii alamosa'' T. Emmel & J. Emmel, 1969 (Mead's wood-nymph) * ''Cercyonis meadii damei'' Barnes & Benjamin, 1926 * ''Cercyonis meadii meadii'' (W. H. Edwards, 1872) * ''Cercyonis meadii melania'' (Wind, 1946) i Data sources: i = ITIS, c = Catalogue of Life, g = GBIF, b = Bugguide.net References Further reading * External links * Cercyonis Articles created by Qbugbot {{Satyrini-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cercyonis
''Cercyonis'' is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae found in North America. They are commonly called wood-nymphs or wood nymphs. Species Listed alphabetically: at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *''Cercyonis pegala'' (Fabricius, 1775) – common wood-nymph or large wood-nymph *''Cercyonis meadii'' (Edwards, 1872) – red-eyed wood-nymph or Mead's wood-nymph *''Cercyonis sthenele'' (Boisduval, 1852) – Great Basin wood-nymph *''Cercyonis oetus'' (Boisduval, 1869) – dark wood-nymph or small wood-nymph References * Brock, J.P and Kaufman K. (2003) ''Kaufman Guide to Butterflies of North Am ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cercyonis Sthenele
''Cercyonis sthenele'', the Great Basin wood-nymph, is a North American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Description It is dark brown with two eyespots on the forewing with the upper larger than the lower. The wingspan measures . Its flight period is from late June to late August. It is found in arid woodland, especially pinyon-juniper, chaparral and brushland habitats. Subspecies The following subspecies are recognised: at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' *''C. s. paulus'' (Edwards, 1879) *''C. s. masoni'' Cross, 1937 Similar species * Common wood-nymph ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cercyonis Oetus
''Cercyonis oetus'', the small wood-nymph or dark wood-nymph, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in western North America. at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' The is 32–45 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August in one generation. The e feed on various grasses. Subspecies There are four recognizedsubspecies
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Satyrini
The Satyrini is one of the tribes of the subfamily Satyrinae. It includes about 2200 species and is therefore the largest tribe in the subfamily which comprises 2500 species. Distribution Satyrini butterflies have a worldwide distribution, but the distribution pattern differs between subtribes. Some subtribes are almost restricted to a single biogeographic region, such as the Pronophilina, which is found only in Andean cloud forests from Venezuela to Bolivia. Biology The larval food plants of many species in this tribe are grasses, i.e. Poaceae. It is considered that the Satyrini diversified at about the same time as the grasses did, and that the radiation of the tribe is therefore closely related to the evolution of the grasses. In contrast, the tribe has a few genera which show uncommon feeding preferences. Three genera, '' Euptychia'', ''Ragadia'' and ''Acrophtalmia'', feed on Lycopsida, and moreover, some species of ''Euptychia'' have been reported to feed on mosses o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). Ottawa had a city population of 1,017,449 and a metropolitan population of 1,488,307, making it the fourth-largest city and fourth-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Ottawa is the political centre of Canada and headquarters to the federal government. The city houses numerous foreign embassies, key buildings, organizations, and institutions of Canada's government, including the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court, the residence of Canada's viceroy, and Office of the Prime Minister. Founded in 1826 as Bytown, and incorporated as Ottawa in 1855, its original boundaries were expanded through numerous annexations and were ultimately ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario
Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Canada, it is Canada's most populous province, with 38.3 percent of the country's population, and is the second-largest province by total area (after Quebec). Ontario is Canada's fourth-largest jurisdiction in total area when the territories of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are included. It is home to the nation's capital city, Ottawa, and the nation's most populous city, Toronto, which is Ontario's provincial capital. Ontario is bordered by the province of Manitoba to the west, Hudson Bay and James Bay to the north, and Quebec to the east and northeast, and to the south by the U.S. states of (from west to east) Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Almost all of Ontario's border with the United States f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Samuel Hubbard Scudder (April 13, 1837 – May 17, 1911) was an American entomologist and paleontologist. He was a leading figure in entomology during his lifetime and the founder of insect paleontology in America. In addition to fossil insects, he was an authority on butterflies (Lepidoptera) and grasshoppers (Orthoptera). Biography Scudder was born on April 13, 1837, in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Charles Scudder and Sarah Lathrop (Coit) Scudder. His father was a successful merchant, and both parents had Puritan roots dating back to the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1620s. He was raised in a strict Calvinist Congregational household.Leach (2013) One of his younger brothers, Horace Scudder, became a noted author and editor of the ''Atlantic Monthly'',Cockerell (1911) while his niece Vida Dutton Scudder was a writer and social activist. Scudder attended Boston Latin School, and then enrolled in Williams College in 1853 at the age of 16. He studied with na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises the large superfamily (zoology), superfamily Papilionoidea, which contains at least one former group, the skippers (formerly the superfamily "Hesperioidea"), and the most recent analyses suggest it also contains the moth-butterflies (formerly the superfamily "Hedyloidea"). Butterfly fossils date to the Paleocene, about 56 million years ago. Butterflies have a four-stage life cycle, as like most insects they undergo Holometabolism, complete metamorphosis. Winged adults lay eggs on the food plant on which their larvae, known as caterpillars, will feed. The caterpillars grow, sometimes very rapidly, and when fully developed, pupate in a chrysalis. When metamorphosis is complete, the pupal skin splits, the adult insect climbs o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: ', plural ') is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus. Standard nomenclature rules end subfamily botanical names with "-oideae", and zoological names with "-inae". See also * International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants * International Code of Zoological Nomenclature * Rank (botany) * Rank (zoology) In biological classification, taxonomic rank is the relative level of a group of organisms (a taxon) in an ancestral or hereditary hierarchy. A common system consists of species, genus, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom, domain. While ... Sources {{biology-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satyrinae
The Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the browns, are a subfamily of the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies). They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known diversity of brush-footed butterflies. The true number of the Satyrinae species is estimated to exceed 2,400. Overview They are generally weak fliers and often shun bright sunlight, preferring moist and semishaded habitats. The caterpillars feed chiefly on monocotyledonous plants such as palms, grasses, and bamboos. The Morphinae are sometimes united with this group. The taxonomy and systematics of the subfamily are under heavy revision. Much of the early pioneering work of L. D. Miller has helped significantly by creating some sort of order. '' Dyndirus'' (Capronnier, 1874) is a satyrid ''incertae sedis''. Other than this genus, according to the latest studies on the classification of Nymphalidae, all satyrines have been assigned to one of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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