Junonia grisea

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
Junonia grisea, gray buckeye, California
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Tribe: Junoniini
Genus: Junonia
Species:
J. grisea
Binomial name
Junonia grisea
Austin & Emmel, 1998

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 coenia is now found mainly east of the Rocky Mountains.[1][2][3]

References
  1. Rutkowski, Chris (November 21, 2018). "First new butterfly species identified since 2016". Phys.org. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
  2. 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). doi:10.1111/syen.12335.
  3. Cong, Qian; Zhang, Jing; Shen, Jinhui; Cao, Xiaolong; et al. (2020). "Speciation in North American Junonia from a genomic perspective". Systematic Entomology. 45 (4). doi:10.1111/syen.12428.

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