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| Polygonia satyrus | |
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| Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States | |
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| Underside, Ottawa, Ontario | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Polygonia |
| Species: | P. satyrus
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| Binomial name | |
| Polygonia satyrus (W.H. Edwards, 1869)
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Polygonia satyrus, the satyr comma, is a North American butterfly of the nymphalid family. It is primarily found in western Canada, where it is locally common. It bears a resemblance to Polygonia comma, the eastern comma, with which it is frequently confused. Its caterpillars feed on Urtica gracilis, the American stinging nettle.
Larval Host Plants
[edit]- Urtica dioica – common nettle[1]
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- Satyr comma, Butterflies of Canada
References
[edit]- ^ Forister, M. L.; Halsch, C. A.; Nice, C. C.; Fordyce, J. A.; Dilts, T. E.; Oliver, J. C.; Prudic, K. L.; Shapiro, A. M.; Wilson, J. K.; Glassberg, J. (2021-03-05). "Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West". Science. 371 (6533): 1042–1045. doi:10.1126/science.abe5585.
- Janz, N., & Nylin, S. (1997). The role of female search behaviour in determining host plant range in plant feeding insects: A test of the information processing hypothesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 264(1382), 701–707. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1997.0100
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