Species: Polygonia faunus
Green Comma
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mandibulata
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Polygonia
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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 - .
Ecology and Life History
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.
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2008-01-15
Global Status Last Changed
1998-09-01
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - 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)

