Megisto cymela, "Little Wood Satyr"

This butterfly is a little wood satyr, Megisto cymela, resting on a leaf. That is said to be a fairly typical encounter. Its underside would have another display of spots

Credit: Wayne Hughes, May 2009; photographed in the rolling hills of the Wolfskin district of the northeast Georgia Piedmont; used by permission. [source].

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