Dark wood-nymph

Description:

A female Dark wood-nymph. A dark brown satyrid, whose forewings are more sharply angled at the apex than in the other wood nymph species. There are two eye-spots with white pupils on the forewing in females, with the lower one smaller and closer to the wing margin. In males only the upper eye-spot is usually present. There are usually no hindwing eye-spots.

Habitat:

Spotted next to a mud puddle in a dirt road in shrub steppe of Eastern Washington. Cascade foothills.

Notes:

Found in western North America.