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(Redirected from Macoun's Arctic) Species of butterfly

Oeneis macounii
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Oeneis
Species group: Oeneis (bore)
Species: O. macounii
Binomial name
Oeneis macounii
(W.H. Edwards, 1885)
Synonyms
  • Chionabas macounii W.H. Edwards, 1885

Oeneis macounii, the Canada Arctic or Macoun's Arctic, is a butterfly of subfamily Satyrinae that occurs in North America.

Description

The wingspan is 46 to 65 mm.

Similar species

Range and habitat

Occurs from British Columbia to Quebec and south to Minnesota and Michigan. The habitat consists of openings in forests of western jack or lodgepole pine and rocky ridges in spruce forest.

Biology

There is one generation per year with adults on wing from early June to early July. East of south-eastern Manitoba, adults fly in even-numbered years. Westward, they are on wing in odd-numbered years.

Larval foods

Adult foods

References

  1. ^ "Oeneis Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Oeneis macounii, Butterflies of Canada
  3. ^ Oeneis macounii, Butterflies and Moths of North America
  4. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
Taxon identifiers
Oeneis macounii
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