satyrid
/səˈtɪərɪd/noun
1- Entomology a butterfly of a group which includes the browns, heaths, ringlets, and related species. They typically have brown wings with small eyespots and many live in woodland and breed on grasses.【昆】眼蝶。亦称BROWN.
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- Subfamily Satyrinae, family Nymphalidae (formerly the family Satyridae).眼蝶亚科, 蛱蝶科(原眼蝶科)。
词源
early 20th cent.: from modern Latin Satyridae (plural), from Latin Satyrus (see SATYR), used as a genus name.