Eurema salome
| Salome Yellow | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Eurema |
| Species: | E. salome |
| Binomial name | |
| Eurema salome (C. & R. Felder, 1861)[1] | |
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The Salome Yellow (Eurema salome) is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. 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). The wings are yellow, the upper surface of the forewings with black margins projecting into the yellow ground colour. Males have a black border on the hindwings, while females are lacking this border. Both sexes have tail-like hindwing projections. 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
The following subspecies are recognised:[1]
- Eurema salome salome (Peru)
- Eurema salome limoneus (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Venezuela)
- Eurema salome gaugamela (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) (Colombia, Venezuela)
- Eurema salome jamapa (Reakirt, 1866) (Mexico)
- Eurema salome xystra (d'Almeida, 1936) (Ecuador)
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