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Itaballia demophile (Butterfly)

Synonyms: Pieris calydonia

Wikipedia Abstract

Itaballia demophile, the cross-barred white, crossbarred white, or black-banded white, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found from the southern United States, and Mexico to Paraguay. The habitat consists of disturbed areas including forest clearings, riverbanks, roadsides, fields, cattle pastures and wasteland. The wingspan is 30–35 mm (1.2–1.4 in). The larvae feed on the leaves of Capparis species, including Capparis indica, and Capparis frondosa.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  .11 grams
Speed [1]  6.04 MPH (2.7 m/s)

Prey / Diet

Capparidastrum frondosum[2]
Quadrella indica (linguam)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1FLIGHT PHYSIOLOGY OF NEOTROPICAL BUTTERFLIES: ALLOMETRY OF AIRSPEEDS DURING NATURAL FREE FLIGHT, ROBERT DUDLEY AND ROBERT B. SRYGLEY, J. exp. Biol. 191, 125–139 (1994)
2Jorrit 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