Grayling (butterfly)

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Hipparchia
Species: H. semele
Binomial name
Hipparchia semele
Linnaeus, 1758

The Grayling (Hipparchia semele) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It sometimes occurs in coastal areas of northeast Scotland such as the Fowlsheugh Nature Reserve.