Little Wood Satyr Butterfly Megisto cymela. Insect. Photograph taken by the author. Copyright © 2025 Now I Wonder. All rights reserved.

Complete Guide To The Little Wood Satyr Butterfly

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Little Wood Satyr Butterfly

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How To Identify Little Wood Satyr Butterflies

  • Little Wood Satyrs are small butterflies with wingspans up to 1.9 inches (4.8 cm), brown bodies and dark eyes.
  • Above:
    • Wings are light brown overall
    • Forewing has 2 dark eye spots
    • Hind wing has 1 – 3 dark eye spots
  • Below:
    • Wings are pale brown-gray with two thin brown stripes
    • Each wing has 2 white-ringed black eye spots.
  • Little Wood Satyr Butterflies live throughout North Carolina.
    • Look for them in forests, along forest edges, and in sunny forest clearings.

Little Wood Satyr Butterfly Classification

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae (Brush-foot Butterflies)

Genus

Megisto

Species

M. cymela

Binomial Name

Megisto cymela

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