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#3075 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Common Buckeye

Junonia coenia

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe
Common Buckeye, photo 1 of 10
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what is it?

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base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 117,229iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

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.
  • 117,229 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1822 (204 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Common Buckeye
scientific name
Junonia coenia
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Nymphalidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
117,229
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1822 by Jacob Hübner

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Nymphalidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 48505, Wikidata Q1257151, GBIF 5130514, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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