• Source: 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.
    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)


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