Enodia 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.[2]

Enodia portlandia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Enodia
Species:
E. portlandia
Binomial name
Enodia portlandia
(Fabricius, 1781)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio portlandia Fabricius, 1781
  • Oreas andromacha Hübner, [1809]
  • Enodia androcardia Hübner, 1821
  • Lethe portlandia
  • Gnodia portlandia

The wingspan is 56–70 mm. The upperside is brown with dark eyespots at the margins. The underside is light brown. 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)
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References
  1. "Enodia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Butterflies and Moths of North America


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