Biology:Anartia jatrophae

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Anartia jatrophae
WhitePeacock.jpg
butterfly house specimen
White peacock (Anartia jatrophae jatrophae) underside.JPG
A. j. jatrophae, Tobago

Secure (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Anartia
Species:
A. jatrophae
Binomial name
Anartia jatrophae
(Linnaeus, 1763)

Anartia jatrophae, the white peacock, is a species of butterfly found in the southeastern United States , Central America, and throughout much of South America. The white peacock's larval hosts are water hyssop (Bacopa monnieri),[2][3] lemon bacopa (Bacopa caroliniensis),[4] tropical waterhyssop (Bacopa innominata),[5] frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora),[6] lanceleaf frogfruit (Phyla lanceolata),[7] and Carolina wild petunia (Ruellia caroliniana).[8][9][10] 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.[11]

Subspecies

Seven subspecies are recognized. [12]

  • A. j. guantanamo - Florida and Cuba
  • A. j. intermedia - Saint Croix[13]
  • A. j. jamaicensis - Jamaica
  • A. j. jatrophae - South America from Venezuela to Argentina
  • A. j. luteipicta - Central America from Mexico to Colombia
  • A. j. saturata - Brazil
  • A. j. semifusca - Puerto Rico

  • A. j. jamaicensis, Jamaica

  • A. j. guantanamo topside, Cuba

  • A. j. guantanamo underside, Florida

  • Topside, male MHNT

  • Underside, male MHNT

  • Topside, female MHNT

  • Underside, female MHNT

References

  1. ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Anartia jatrophae White Peacock". https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.115231/Anartia_jatrophae. Retrieved 3 October 2020. 
  2. ↑ "Bacopa monnieri". Florida Native Plant Society. http://www.fnps.org/plants/plant/bacopa-monnieri. 
  3. ↑ "Water Hyssop Rooted Starters". ButterflyWorx.com. 2016. http://www.butterflyworkx.com/water-hyssop.html. 
  4. ↑ Lyn Gettys; Carl J. Della Torre III (April 2015). "Lemon bacopa: Bacopa caroliniana". UF IFAS Extension. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/pdffiles/AG/AG39200.pdf. 
  5. ↑ Cary, Mary Jane (June 2015). "Planting with Purpose". The Green Gazette (Naples, FL, US: UF IFAS Extension). http://collier.ifas.ufl.edu/HomeGarden/pubs/201506GreenGazetteNewsletter.pdf. Retrieved 2017-09-01. 
  6. ↑ "White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae)". Floridata.com LLC. 2015. https://floridata.com/tracks/butterflies/WhitePeacock.html. 
  7. ↑ Mike Quinn. "Caterpillar Food Plants for Central Texas". Steven Schafersman. http://llanoestacado.org/resources/butterflies/caterpillar_food_plants_central_texas.pdf. 
  8. ↑ Mark Hutchinson (2011). "Ruellia caroliniensis – Carolina Wild Petunia". Florida Native Plant Society. http://www.fnps.org/assets/pdf/pubs/ruellia_caroliniensis_carolinawildpetunia.pdf. 
  9. ↑ "White Peacock". Florida Museum of Natural History. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wildflower/completebutterflydata.asp?id=31. 
  10. ↑ Lotts, Kelly; Thomas Naberhaus (2017). "White Peacock". Metalmark Web & Data. https://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Anartia-jatrophae. 
  11. ↑ Lederhouse, R.C.Expression error: Unrecognized word "et". (November 1992). "Host plant-based territoriality in the white peacock butterfly, Anartia jatrophae". Journal of Insect Behavior 5 (6): 721–728. doi:10.1007/BF01047982. ISSN 1572-8889. 
  12. ↑ "White Peacock Anartia jatrophae". iNaturalist. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49761-Anartia-jatrophae. 
  13. ↑ "Anartia jatrophae intermedia Munroe, 1942". Butterflies of America. https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Anartia_jatrophae_intermedia_a.htm. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q956166 entry




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