Lethe creola

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Lethe creola
Creole Pearly-eye - Lethe creola, Natchez Trace, near Natchez, Mississippi - 24791153950.jpg
Status TNC G4.svg
Apparently Secure  (NatureServe) [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Lethe
Species:
L. creola
Binomial name
Lethe creola
(Skinner, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Enodia creola Skinner, 1897
  • Debis creola Skinner, 1897

Lethe creola, the creole pearly-eye, is a species of brush-footed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. [2] [3] [4] It is found it the United States from North Carolina and central Georgia west to eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas. [5] Some authorities include this species in the genus Enodia as Enodia creola. [6]

Contents

The MONA or Hodges number for Lethe creola is 4568.2. [7]

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References

  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Lethe creola Creole Pearly-Eye". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
  2. "Lethe creola Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. "Lethe creola". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  4. "Lethe creola Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  5. Butterflies and Moths of North America
  6. Calhoun, John V.; Leary, Patrick R.; Berthet, Bill; Warren, Andrew D. (2015). "Discovered at last: Lethe creola (Nymphalidae: Satyridae) is a resident of Florida". Southern Lepidopterists' News. 37 (2): 81.
  7. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Lethe creola" . Retrieved 2018-04-12.

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