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Asterocampa celtis (Hackberry emperor butterfly)

Synonyms: Apatura celtis

Wikipedia Abstract

The Hackberry Emperor (Asterocampa celtis) is a North American butterfly that belongs to the family of brushfooted butterflies, Nymphalidae.
View Wikipedia Record: Asterocampa celtis

Infraspecies

Asterocampa celtis alba
Asterocampa celtis celtis
Asterocampa celtis inornata
Asterocampa celtis montis
Asterocampa celtis reinthali

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.693 inches (.043 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Badlands National Park II 178535 South Dakota, United States
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Celtis ehrenbergiana (desert hackberry (spiny))[2]
Celtis laevigata (sugar berry)[2]
Celtis occidentalis (common hackberry)[2]
Celtis tenuifolia (georgia hackberry)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 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
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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