Mead’s Wood-Nymph

Cercyonis meadi · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

Also called: Mead's Wood Nymph

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Mead’s Wood-Nymph
Photo: John Rosford, CC BY

Mead’s wood-nymph is a brush-footed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Cercyonis meadi, called Mead’s wood-nymph, belongs to the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

This butterfly is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its range includes North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 11 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Kansas.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Mead’s Wood-Nymph photo 2
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0
Mead’s Wood-Nymph photo 3
Photo: Paul Bedell, CC BY-SA
Mead’s Wood-Nymph photo 4
Photo: Robert Webster, CC BY-SA
Mead’s Wood-Nymph photo 5
Photo: Elliott Gordon, CC BY

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercyonis_meadii

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-25 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-25.

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