Enodia portlandia

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Enodia portlandia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Enodia
Species:
E. portlandia
Binomial name
Enodia portlandia
(Fabricius, 1781) [2]
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.

Subspecies

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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