Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae > Cercyonis > Cercyonis pegala

Cercyonis pegala (common wood-nymph)

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Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Infraspecies

Cercyonis pegala abbotti
Cercyonis pegala alope
Cercyonis pegala ariane
Cercyonis pegala baroni
Cercyonis pegala blanca
Cercyonis pegala boopis
Cercyonis pegala carsonensis
Cercyonis pegala ino
Cercyonis pegala nephele
Cercyonis pegala paludum
Cercyonis pegala paucilineatus
Cercyonis pegala pegala
Cercyonis pegala pluvialis
Cercyonis pegala stephensi
Cercyonis pegala utahensis
Cercyonis pegala walkerensis

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.89 inches (.048 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Badlands National Park II 178535 South Dakota, United States
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States
Western Michigan University’s Asylum Lake Preserve 274 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Polites origenes (Crossline Skipper)1
Pompeius verna (Little Glassywing)1

Predators

Asilus sericeus[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 3Predator-Prey Database for the family Asilidae (Hexapoda: Diptera) Prepared by Dr. Robert Lavigne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, USA and Dr. Jason Londt (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0