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Subfamily: Satyrs and Wood-Nymphs (Satyrinae)
Subfamily Description: The Satyrinae are medium-sized species of the Family Nymphalidae. Members of this worldwide group are most often brown with one or more marginal eyespots. Males often have visible patches of specialized scales on the fore- or hindwings. Adults have short proboscises and rarely visit flowers, feeding instead on rotting fruit, animal droppings, or sap flows. Nearly all species feed on grasses and grasslike plants, including bamboos, rushes, and sedges. Adults usually perch with their wings closed, but open them wide when basking early in the morning or during cloudy weather. Most species have local colonies and are not migratory. Males patrol when searching for mates, flying in characteristic slow, skipping flight. Eggs are laid singly on the host leaves or stems, and caterpillars feed within shelters of several leaves sewn together with silk. Development from egg to adult can take two years in arctic and alpine species, and it is synchronized in some species. In those species, adult butterflies are only found every other year. Satyrinae typically overwinter as partially grown caterpillars.Sort method:
 Southern Pearly Eye (Enodia portlandia) |
| Northern Pearly Eye (Enodia anthedon) |
| Creole Pearly Eye (Enodia creola) |
 Dirty-blue Satyr (Cepheuptychia glaucina) |
| Plain Satyr (Cissia pompilia) |
| Eyed Brown (Satyrodes eurydice) |
| Appalachian Brown (Satyrodes appalachia) |
| Nabokov's Satyr (Cyllopsis pyracmon) |
| Canyonland Satyr (Cyllopsis pertepida) |
| Gemmed Satyr (Cyllopsis gemma) |
| Carolina Satyr (Hermeuptychia sosybius) |
| Hermes Satyr (Hermeuptychia hermes) |
| Georgia Satyr (Neonympha areolatus) |
| Helicta Satyr (Neonympha helicta) |
| Mitchell's Satyr (Neonympha mitchellii) |
| Little Wood Satyr (Megisto cymela) |
| Viola's Wood Satyr (Megisto viola) |
| Red Satyr (Megisto rubricata) |
| Pine Satyr (Paramacera xicaque) |
| White Satyr (Pareuptychia ocirrhoe) |
| Hayden's Ringlet (Coenonympha haydenii) |
| Common Ringlet (Coenonympha tullia) |
| Common Wood Nymph (Cercyonis pegala) |
| Great Basin Wood Nymph (Cercyonis sthenele) |
| Mead's Wood Nymph (Cercyonis meadii) |
| Small Wood Nymph (Cercyonis oetus) |
| Vidler's Alpine (Erebia vidleri) |
| Ross' Alpine (Erebia rossii) |
| Disa Alpine (Erebia disa) |
| Taiga Alpine (Erebia mancinus) |
| Magdalena Alpine (Erebia magdalena) |
| Mt. McKinley Alpine (Erebia mackinleyensis) |
| Banded Alpine (Erebia fasciata) |
| Red-disked Alpine (Erebia discoidalis) |
| Yellow-dotted Alpine (Erebia pawlowskii) |
| Four-dotted Alpine (Erebia youngi) |
| Erebia occulta (Erebia occulta) |
| Erebia lafontainei (Erebia lafontainei) |
| Reddish Alpine (Erebia kozhantshikovi) |
| Colorado Alpine (Erebia callias) |
| Common Alpine (Erebia epipsodea) |
| Red-bordered Satyr (Gyrocheilus patrobas) |
| Ridings' Satyr (Neominois ridingsii) |
| Wyoming Satyr (Neominois wyomingo) |
| Philip's Arctic (Oeneis philipi) |
| Polixenes Arctic (Oeneis polixenes) |
| Jutta Arctic (Oeneis jutta) |
| Melissa Arctic (Oeneis melissa) |
| Sentinel Arctic (Oeneis alpina) |
| White-veined Arctic (Oeneis bore) |
| Chryxus Arctic (Oeneis chryxus) |
| Alberta Arctic (Oeneis alberta) |
| Great Arctic (Oeneis nevadensis) |
| Macoun's Arctic (Oeneis macounii) |
| Uhler's Arctic (Oeneis uhleri) |
