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Anaea andria (Goatweed leafwing butterfly)

Synonyms: Paphia ops

Infraspecies

Anaea andria andria
Anaea andria andriaesta

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  2.677 inches (.068 m)

Protected Areas

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

Prey / Diet

Croton capitatus (hogwort)[2]
Croton heptalon (pepperbush)[2]
Croton monanthogynus (prairie tea)[2]
Croton texensis (Texas croton)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Perognathus flavescens (plains pocket mouse)1
Perognathus flavus (silky pocket mouse)1
Xerospermophilus spilosoma (spotted ground squirrel)1

Predators

Proctacanthus milbertii (Milbert's Proctacanthus)[3]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Goatweed Butterfly, Goatweed Emperor, Goatweed Leafwing Anaea andria Scudder (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Charaxinae), Donald W. Hall and Jerry F. Butler, University of Florida
♦ 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
♦ 3Predator-Prey Database for the family Asilidae (Hexapoda: Diptera) Prepared by Dr. Robert Lavigne, Professor Emeritus, University of Wyoming, USA and Dr. Jason Londt (Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg)
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