Small Heath (butterfly)

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Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Genus: Coenonympha
Species: C. pamphilus
Binomial name
Coenonympha pamphilus
Linnaeus, 1758

The Small Heath (Coenonympha pamphilus) is a butterfly species, widespread in Eurasia and northwestern Africa. Its caterpillars eat grasses.

It looks like a small Meadow Brown.