Southern Pearly Eye

Enodia portlandia

The Southern Pearly Eye, Portland Pearlyeye or just Pearly Eye is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas east through the south-eastern United States.

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.
Southern Pearly Eye Butterfly A Southern Pearly Eye butterfly, perched on a palm frond near Sharktooth Spring in Seminole State Forest.  I wish I could have gotten closer, but that lens' minimum focus is 9 feet.  (The metadata says 50mm which is what it says when it doesn't detect a lens; it was a 200mm manual lens that's older than me.)  But this kind of butterfly is particularly timid anyway! Enodia portlandia

Naming

*''Enodia portlandia portlandia''
⤷ ''Enodia portlandia floralae''
⤷ ''Enodia portlandia missarkae''

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyNymphalidae
GenusEnodia
SpeciesE. portlandia