#3125 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Common Wood-Nymph
Cercyonis pegala
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © njcarpenter · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Erik Attaway · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Giff Beaton · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © David Hofmann · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. © John Beetham · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © Jim P. Brock · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © Patrick Coin · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © parkermi · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Sean Fraser · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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 .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 35,873 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Wood-Nymph
- scientific name
- Cercyonis pegala
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nymphalidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 35,873
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Nymphalidae
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#2395 📷 10Meadow Brown
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#2397 📷 9Painted Lady
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 58606, Wikidata Q2674031, GBIF 1915492, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.