Megisto cymela

Megisto cymela
Little Wood Satyr
Dorsal view, Ottawa, Ontario
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Megisto
Species: M. cymela
Binomial name
Megisto cymela
(Cramer, 1777)
Subspecies

M. c. cymela
M. c. viola (Maynard, 1891)
Synonyms

Papilio cymela

The Little Wood Satyr (Megisto cymela) is a species of Satyrinae that occurs in North America.

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Description

Ventral view
Adult

The wingspan is 29–48 mm. The forewing has two yellow-rimmed black spots on both sides, dorsal and ventral. The hindwing has two spots on the dorsal side but have smaller spots on the ventral. The other all color is light brown.

Caterpillar

The body is light greenish-brown with a dark dorsal line and alternating brown and yellowish lateral stripes. The surface of the caterpillar has bumps, these bumps bear short reddish-brown hairs. The head is dirty white while the tail hairs are light gray.

Range & Habitat

They are seen in the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, Nova Scotia south into Florida west to Texas, Saskatchewan and Wyoming. As the name implies the Little Wood Satyr is most commonly seen in woods and shrubby areas.

Life cycle

Adults in the northern portions of their range fly between June and July while their southern populations fly between March and September. Adults have a slow "bouncing" flight but they will rise as far as the top of tall trees. Females lay eggs singly on grass, the fourth-instar caterpillars hibernate.

Larval foods

Adult foods

References

External links


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