Anaea andria

Anaea andria
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Anaeini
Genus: Anaea
Species:
A. andria
Binomial name
Anaea andria
Scudder, 1875

Anaea andria, known generally as the goatweed leafwing or goatweed butterfly, is a species of leafwing in the butterfly family Nymphalidae. It is found in North America.

Host plants include goatweed, Texas croton, and prairie tea; all in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.

Goatweed leafwing, Anaea andria

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Anaea andria:

References

  1. ↑ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Anaea andria Goatweed Leafwing". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  2. ↑ "Anaea andria Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  3. ↑ "Anaea andria". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  4. ↑ "Goatweed Leafwing". butterfliesandmoths.org. Retrieved 18 November 2024.

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