#3140 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Gray Buckeye
Junonia grisea
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Irene · CC0
- 2. © Melissa Pearson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © cjackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Brook · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © cjackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Alex · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Junonia grisea , the gray buckeye or grey buckeye , is a species in the butterfly family Nymphalidae. It is found in North America, west of the Rocky Mountains. Like the common buckeye, the gray buckeye is a brown butterfly with eyespots on its wings that distract predators from its body.
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.
- 32,243 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Gray Buckeye
- scientific name
- Junonia grisea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nymphalidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 32,243
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Nymphalidae
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LC 👀 4.7k in NL
#2386 📷 9Speckled Wood
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👀 4.3k in NL
#2387 📷 10European Peacock Butterfly
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👀 3.8k in NL
#2392 📷 10European Comma
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👀 2k in NL
#2395 📷 10Meadow Brown
🇳🇱 Bruin zandoogje
Maniola jurtina
👀 1.7k in NL
#2397 📷 9Painted Lady
🇳🇱 Distelvlinder
Vanessa cardui
LC 👀 1.6k in NL
#2399 📷 9Map
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🇳🇱 Kleine vos
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1021509, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.