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Megisto

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Megisto is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.

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Vinony's link graph records 3 inbound references to Megisto, and connects out to Megisto cymela, Animalia and Ottawa.

It is catalogued under topics including Butterfly genera, Euptychiina and Nymphalidae of South America.

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Species

Little Wood Satyr

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyNymphalidae
Observations29,072

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
51
Family
Nymphalidae
Collections
MHNCA, GMNH, OMNH, OSUC
Recorded in
Mexico, United States

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Instance of
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Parent taxon
Euptychiina
Image
Little Wood Satyr 1.jpg
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taxon name
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Encyclopedic overview

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Megisto is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.

==Species== Megisto cymela (Cramer, [1777]) – little wood satyr Megisto cymela viola (Maynard, 1891) – Viola's wood satyr Megisto rubricata (Edwards, 1871) – red satyr [US (New Mexico, Oklahoma), Mexico, Guatemala]

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