''Oeneis macounii'', the Canada Arctic or Macoun's Arctic, is a butterfly of subfamily

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 divers ...

that occurs in North America.

Description

The wingspan is 46 to 65 mm. The wings are bright orange brown with black borders on both wings. There are two black eyespots on each forewing and one on each hindwing.''Oeneis macounii''
Butterflies and Moths of North America

Similar species

Great Arctic ''Oeneis nevadensis'' is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is commonly known as the great Arctic, Nevada Arctic, great grayling, Felder's Arctic, or Pacific Arctic. It is native to northwestern North America. Subspecies * ''O ...

(''O. nevadensis'') *

Chryxus Arctic ''Oeneis chryxus'', the chryxus Arctic or brown Arctic, is a butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae found in the far northwest regions of Canada and the United States. The brown Arctic has highly variable colorings, which tend toward light yellow to or ...

(''O. chryxus'')''Oeneis macounii''
Butterflies of Canada

Range and habitat

Occurs from British Columbia to Quebec and south to Minnesota and Michigan. The habitat consists of openings in forests of western jack or lodgepole pine and rocky ridges in spruce forest.

Biology

There is one generation per year with adults on wing from early June to early July. East of south-eastern Manitoba, adults fly in even-numbered years. Westward, they are on wing in odd-numbered years.

Larval foods

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

Adult foods

Nectar Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries or nectarines, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists ...

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3343611 Butterflies of North America Butterflies described in 1885 Oeneis