Apodemia mormo

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Mormon metalmark
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Riodinidae
Genus: Apodemia
Species: A. mormo
Binomial name
Apodemia mormo
Felder & Felder, 1859

Apodemia mormo, the Mormon metalmark, is a species of Metalmark butterfly, Riodinidae. Its upperside is orange-brown to black, checkered with black and white spots. Its caterpillar host is various species of Eriogonum, wild buckwheat. Its adult food is nectar from the flowers of Eriogonum and other plants, especially yellow-flowered composites, such as Senecio and Chrysothamnus (rabbitbrush).

Its range is North Dakota to Washington, south to Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico.

Lange's metalmark butterfly (Apodemia mormo langei) is an endangered subspecies. It only occurs in and around the Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge in California.

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