satyridn.adj.

1865 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 5 23 Some other Satyrid must have been mistaken for this by the observer on Mt. Monadnock.

1912 H. Rowland-Brown Butterflies & Moths viii. 79 The habit of quickly dropping the folded fore wings..renders the Continental Satyrids..well-nigh invisible on the tree trunks where they love to perch.

1963 V. Nabokov Gift ii. 126 His father accompanied him up a trail through the pinewoods in order to show him, with a smile of condescension for this European trifle, the Satyrid recently described by Kuznetzov, which was flitting from stone to stone.

2002 G. C. Bozano Guide Butterflies Palearctic Region: Satyrinae Pt. III 5/1 As the Satyrids are now treated as a subfamily of the Nymphalidae, the taxonomic groups previously ranked as Subfamilies have to be downgraded to the rank of Tribes.

1885 Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 366 At the very first shake, to my infinite delight, out dropped an unmistakable Satyrid larva.

1906 K. Jordan tr. A. Seitz Macrolepidoptera of World 79 One peculiarity in the neuration of the Satyrid wing is the cystoid dilatation of one or the other vein in the basal area of the forewing.

1936 Discovery Dec. 370/2 A shining silvery insect..quite different from the general run of Satyrid butterflies.

2005 M. Chinery Compl. Brit. Insects 276 These [sc. two short prongs at the rear] will always distinguish satyrid caterpillars from those of the white butterflies.