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n. - A widely distributed family of butterflies common near the edges of woods.

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  • Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Serranía de Valledupar, Colombia-Venezuela border.
  • Taxonomía y distribución de los Satyridae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) en la Sierra de Perijá, frontera colombo-venezolana.
  • Other groups that lend themselves to farming include the swallowtails, nymphalids (including Agrias), and certain members of the family Satyridae.
  • 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...
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