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Oeneis chryxus (chrysus artic)

Synonyms: Oeneis calais; Oeneis chryxus calais; Oeneis strigulosa

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chryxus Arctic or Brown Arctic (Oeneis chryxus) is a butterfly, a species of Satyrinae that occurs in North America.
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Infraspecies

Oeneis chryxus altacordillera
Oeneis chryxus caryi
Oeneis chryxus chryxus
Oeneis chryxus stanislaus
Oeneis chryxus strigulosa
Oeneis chryxus valerata

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.811 inches (.046 m)

Prey / Diet

Carex spectabilis (showy sedge)[2]
Danthonia spicata (poverty wild oat grass)[3]
Festuca idahoensis (Idaho fescue)[3]
Phalaris arundinacea (reed canarygrass)[3]
Piptatheropsis pungens[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
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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