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Taxonomía y distribución de los Satyridae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) en la Sierra de Perijá, frontera colombo-venezolana.
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Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Serranía de Valledupar, Colombia-Venezuela border.
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Other groups that lend themselves to farming include the swallowtails, nymphalids (including Agrias), and certain members of the family Satyridae.
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In butterflies, there is undoubtedly a larger proportion of brilliant colour in the tropics; but if we compare families which are almost equally developed over the globe -- as the Pieridae or whites and yellows, and the Satyridae or ringlets -- we shall find no great disproportion in colour between those of temperate and tropical regions.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Also, anyone discussing the Satyridae family of butterflies will know that just plain pegala designates the goggle eye the wood satyr, the blue-eyed grayling, the wood nymph.
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