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Pyrisitia nise (Mimosa Yellow)

Synonyms: Eurema nise (homotypic); Eurema venustula

Wikipedia Abstract

Pyrisitia nise, the mimosa yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Argentina north to the Texas Gulf Coast and throughout central and southern Florida, northward to the Tennessee Valley. It is an occasional stray to central Texas and south-eastern Arizona and rarely to southern California, southern Colorado and Kansas. The habitat consists of brushy woodland edges. The larvae feed on Mimosa pudica.
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Infraspecies

Pyrisitia nise nelphe
Pyrisitia nise nise

Prey / Diet

Mimosa pudica (shameplant)[1]
Tecoma stans (trumpetbush)[1]

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Ludwigia nervosa[2]

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.
♦ 2Ramirez, N., and Y. Brito. 1992. Pollination Biology in a Palm Swamp Community in the Venezuelan Central Plains. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 110:277-302.
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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