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Enodia portlandia

Synonyms: Lethe portlandia (homotypic); Lethe portlandia floralae; Lethe portlandia missarkae; Lethe portlandia portlandia; Oreas andromacha

Wikipedia Abstract

The Southern Pearly Eye, Portland Pearlyeye or just Pearly Eye (Enodia portlandia) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas east through the south-eastern United States. The wingspan is 56–70 mm. The upperside is brown with dark eyespots at the margins. The underside is light brown. 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.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Leersia virginica (white grass)[1]
Schizachne purpurascens (false melic grass)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0