Biology:Lethe portlandia
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Short description: Species of butterfly
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Lethe |
| Species: | L. portlandia
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| Lethe portlandia (Fabricius, 1781)[2]
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Lethe portlandia, the southern pearly eye, Portland pearlyeye or just pearly eye, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.[3][4] It is found in the United States from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas east through the south-east.[5]
The wingspan is 56–70 mm. Adults feed on sap, rotting fruit, carrion and dung.
The larvae feed on the leaves of Arundinaria tecta. The species overwinters in the larval stage.
References
- ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Lethe portlandia Southern Pearly-Eye". https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.118896/Lethe_portlandia. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ↑ "Enodia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ↑ Peña, Carlos; Wahlberg, Niklas; Weingartner, Elisabet; Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa; Nylin, Sören; Freitas, André V.L.; Brower, Andrew V.Z. (July 2006). "Higher level phylogeny of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on DNA sequence data". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40 (1): 29–49. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2006.02.007. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 16563805. Bibcode: 2006MolPE..40...29P. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1055790306000583.
- ↑ Pohl, Greg R.; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016), Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico, Unpublished, doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287, https://www.researchgate.net/doi/10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287, retrieved 2026-09-07
- ↑ Butterflies and Moths of North America
Wikidata ☰ Q106453660 entry
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