#3136 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Little Wood Satyr

Megisto cymela

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Hans Ritter · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ty Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Ty Smith · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Alie / C.A. Kratzer · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © Nikolett Tóth · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Hans Ritter · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Euclid vanderKroew · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. © Stuart Tingley · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Chuck Sexton · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Mary Keim · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Megisto cymela , the little wood satyr , is a species of Satyrinae that occurs in North America.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 32,595iNaturalist observations

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.
32,595 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pieter Cramer in 1777 (249 years ago).