Species: Polygonia faunus

Green Comma
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Mandibulata
    Class

    Insecta

    Order

    Lepidoptera

    Family

    Nymphalidae

    Genus

    Polygonia

    Classification
    Other Global Common Names
    polygone à taches vertes
    Informal Taxonomy
    Animals, Invertebrates - Insects - Butterflies and Moths - Butterflies and Skippers
    Formal Taxonomy
    Animalia - Mandibulata - Insecta - Lepidoptera - Nymphalidae - Polygonia - .
    Short General Description
    Butterfly, Nymphalidae.
    Migration
    true - false - false - While several species in this and related genera are somewhat to strongly migratory there is no evidence that this one is. There are no records far outside of its usual range, although it did formerly turn up farther south than it does now.
    Non-migrant
    true
    Locally Migrant
    false
    Food Comments
    Adults do not often visit flowers but seem to sip minerals from moist soil and are known to feed on sap, and probably rotting fruit and dung. The larval foodplants are not well documented in much of the range, but seem to generally be birches, alders, and willows. Others have been reported.
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    2008-01-15
    Global Status Last Changed
    1998-09-01
    Conservation Status Map
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    Global Range
    H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Much of western and northern North America. Specifically, British Columbia south to central California and east to Iowa and across Canada, but eastward south regularly only into northern New England (especially northern New Hampshire), northern New York, northern Great Lakes region and very sporadically farther south with dubious reports to southern Pennsylvania, but with a few authentic, mostly pre-1950, records for northern Pennsylvania, extreme northern New Jersey and Connecticut. Also occurs disjunctly in Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia to Georgia (subspecies SMYTHI).
    Global Range Code
    H
    Global Range Description
    >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)
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