Biology:Junonia grisea
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Junonia grisea | |
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| Junonia grisea, gray buckeye, California | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Nymphalinae |
| Tribe: | Junoniini |
| Genus: | Junonia |
| Species: | J. grisea
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| Binomial name | |
| Junonia grisea Austin & Emmel, 1998
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Junonia grisea, the gray buckeye or grey buckeye, is a species in the butterfly family Nymphalidae. It is found in North America, west of the Rocky Mountains. Like the common buckeye, the gray buckeye is a brown butterfly with eyespots on its wings that distract predators from its body.[1]
Junonia grisea was formerly considered a subspecies of the common buckeye, Junonia coenia, called Junonia coenia grisea. The gray buckeye's status as a separate species was discovered in 2018 by Dr. Jeffrey Marcus, an entomologist at the University of Manitoba, and Melanie Lalonde, a graduate student. As a result, Junonia grisea is now found mainly west of the Rocky Mountains.[1][2][3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rutkowski, Chris (November 21, 2018). "First new butterfly species identified since 2016". https://phys.org/news/2018-11-butterfly-species.html.
- ↑ Lalonde, Melanie M.L.; Marcus, Jeffrey M. (2019). "Getting western: biogeographical analysis of morphological variation, mitochondrial haplotypes and nuclear markers reveals cryptic species and hybrid zones in the Junonia butterflies of the American southwest and Mexico". Systematic Entomology 44 (3): 465–489. doi:10.1111/syen.12335. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/syen.12335.
- ↑ Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Cao, Xiaolong et al. (2020). "Speciation in North American Junonia from a genomic perspective". Systematic Entomology 45 (4): 803–837. doi:10.1111/syen.12428. PMID 34744257.
Further reading
- Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302570819.
Wikidata ☰ Q96249801 entry
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