Enodia portlandia, the southern pearly eye, Portland pearlyeye or just pearly eye, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the United States from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas east through the southeast.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Enodia |
| Species: | E. portlandia
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| Enodia portlandia | |
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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.
Subspecies
edit- Enodia portlandia portlandia
- Enodia portlandia floralae (Heitzman & dos Passos, 1974)
- Enodia portlandia missarkae (Heitzman & dos Passos, 1974)
References
edit- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Lethe portlandia Southern Pearly-Eye". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 1 October 2020.
- ^ "Enodia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Butterflies and Moths of North America