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Anartia jatrophae (white peacock)

Synonyms: Papilio jatrophae

Wikipedia Abstract

Anartia jatrophae (white peacock) is a species of butterfly found in the southeastern United States, Central America, and throughout much of South America. The males of the species display a unique territorial behavior, in which they stake out a territory typically 15 meters in diameter that contains larval host plants. They perch in this area and aggressively protect it from other insects and other male white peacocks. \n* Topside, male MHNT \n* Underside, male MHNT \n* Topside, female MHNT \n* Underside, female MHNT \n* Jamaican white peacock A. j. jamaicensis \n* A. j. jatrophae, Tobago \n*
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools
Diet [1]  Herbivore

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Melochia nodiflora (bretonica prieta)[3]
Sphagneticola trilobata (Bay Biscayne Creeping-oxeye)[3]
Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (light-blue snakeweed)[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
3Jorrit 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