Species: Phyciodes cocyta
Northern Crescent
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mandibulata
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Phyciodes
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
croissant nordique
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Invertebrates - Insects - Butterflies and Moths - Butterflies and Skippers
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Mandibulata - Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae - Phyciodes - in places where that species probably did not occur.
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Butterfly, Nymphalidae.
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Larvae feed on various ASTER spp. and VERBESINA (Paul Opler).
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2003-02-27
Global Status Last Changed
1998-10-01
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Central Canada, south spottily in Western mountains to southern Mexico. Absent from much of California, Nevada, Oregon. Also in northern US and southern Canada, extending south to Michigan, New England; in Appalachians to Virginia.
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)