Enodia portlandia

Enodia portlandia
Conservation status
Apparently Secure  (NatureServe) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Enodia
Species:	E. portlandia
Binomial name
Enodia portlandia (Fabricius, 1781) [2]
Subspecies
E. p. portlandia E. p. floralaeHeitzman & dos Passos, 1974 E. p. missarkaHeitzman & dos Passos, 1974
Synonyms
Papilio portlandiaFabricius, 1781 Oreas andromachaHübner, [1809] Enodia androcardiaHübner, 1821 Lethe portlandia Gnodia portlandia

Enodia portlandia, the southern pearly eye, Portland pearlyeye or just pearly eye, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the United States from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas east through the southeast. ^[3]

The wingspan is 56–70 mm. Adults feed on sap, rotting fruit, carrion and dung.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Arundinaria tecta . The species overwinters in the larval stage.

References

1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Lethe portlandia Southern Pearly-Eye". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
2. "Enodia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
3. Butterflies and Moths of North America