Enodia portlandia

Enodia portlandia
Conservation status
	; Apparently Secure (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Enodia
Species:	E. portlandia
Binomial name
	Enodia portlandia; (Fabricius, 1781)
Synonyms
	Papilio portlandia Fabricius, 1781; Oreas andromacha Hübner, [1809]; Enodia androcardia Hübner, 1821; Lethe portlandia; Gnodia portlandia;

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]

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

Enodia portlandia portlandia
Enodia portlandia floralae (Heitzman & dos Passos, 1974)
Enodia portlandia missarkae (Heitzman & dos Passos, 1974)

References

^ "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

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[1] "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Lethe portlandia Southern Pearly-Eye". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 1 October 2020.

[2] "Enodia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

[3] Butterflies and Moths of North America

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