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Common wood nymph butterfly--Cercyonis pegala

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Title	Common wood nymph butterfly--Cercyonis pegala
Subject	Plants and Animals Butterflies Insects Satyridae
Place	Ohio
Description	The common wood nymph butterfly can be found in all of Ohio's eighty-eight counties. It is a member of the Satyridae (satyr) family and prefers to live in open areas of forests and pastures during the months of May to September. This species has a wingspan of 1.9 to 3 inches (4.8 to 7.6 cm). In Ohio there are more than 150 species of butterflies. Twenty-seven different species of butterflies representing five families can be found in the Ohio Memory Online Scrapbook, including all seven species of butterflies that are listed as endangered in Ohio. Butterflies are a part of the order Lepidoptera (from the Greek words lepis, which means scale, and pteron, which means wing). There are nearly 17,500 species of butterflies world-wide. Approximately 750 of these can be found in North America.
Date of Original	1920 - 1950 circa
Collection	Ohio Butterfly Collection http://www.ohiohistory.org/ohiopix/
Source	Natural history specimen(s); N 17428; N 25666
Format	picture; specimens
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type	StillImage
Date created	2011-08-10

Title	Om1360_1156485_049
Rights	Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1360_1156485_049.tif
Image Height	882
Image Width	1110
File Size	281.43 KB
Date created	2009-01-05

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