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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Chlosyne |
| Species: | C. nycteis
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| Chlosyne nycteis (Doubleday, 1847)
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Chlosyne nycteis, the silvery checkerspot, is a species of Nymphalinae butterfly that occurs in North America. It is listed as a species of special concern in Connecticut and Maine, and is believed extirpated in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.[2][3]
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Chlosyne nycteis Silvery Checkerspot". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015". State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
- ^ Calhoun, John (2022). "A local irruption of Chlosyne nycteis (Nymphalidae) in Maine, with an important new food plant record". News of the Lepidopterists' Society. 64: 26–33.