Eurema salome
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Species of butterfly
| Salome yellow | |
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Eurema |
| Species: | E. salome
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| Binomial name | |
| Eurema salome | |
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Eurema salome, the Salome yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Peru northward through tropical America. It is an extremely rare migrant to the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The habitat consists of forest openings and edges and roadcuts.[2]
The wingspan is 47–57 mm (1.9–2.2 in). Adults are on wing from August to September in southern Texas and all year round in the tropics. Adults feed on flower nectar of a wide variety of flowers.[2]
The larvae feed on Diphysa species.[2]
Subspecies
[edit ]The following subspecies are recognized:[1]
- E. s. salome (Peru)
- E. s. limoneus (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Venezuela)
- E. s. gaugamela (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) (Colombia, Venezuela)
- E. s. jamapa (Reakirt, 1866) (Mexico)
- E. s. xystra (d'Almeida, 1936) (Ecuador)
References
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Categories:
- Eurema
- Lepidoptera of Mexico
- Butterflies of Central America
- Pieridae of South America
- Fauna of the Amazon
- Butterflies described in 1861
- Taxa named by Cajetan von Felder
- Taxa named by Rudolf Felder
- Lepidoptera of Peru
- Lepidoptera of Venezuela
- Lepidoptera of Colombia
- Lepidoptera of Ecuador
- Pieridae stubs