Anteos maerula

Anteos maerula, the angled sulphur or yellow angled-sulphur, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found from Peru to Mexico. Rarely, migrants can be found up to eastern Nebraska, south-eastern Arizona, south-western New Mexico, southern Texas, Mississippi and Florida.[2]

Yellow angled-sulphur
male A. m. maerula in Jamaica (dorsal)
male A. m. maerula in Jamaica (ventral)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Anteos
Species:
A. maerula
Binomial name
Anteos maerula
(Fabricius, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio maerula Fabricius, 1775
  • Rhodocera maerula
  • Amynthia maerula
  • Papilio ecclipsis Cramer, [1777]
  • Rhodocera lacordairei Boisduval, 1836
  • Rhodocera gueneeana Boisduval, 1836
  • Gonepteryx maerula ab. flava Röber, 1909
  • Anteos maerula lacordairei

The wingspan is 82–117 mm. The upperside of the males is bright yellow, while females are paler. Both sexes have a black spot in the forewing cell. Adults feed on the nectar from red and purple flowers, including Hibiscus and Bougainvilla species.

The larvae feed on Cassia species, including Cassia emarginata.

References
  1. Anteos, Site of Markku Savela
  2. Butterflies and Moths of North America collecting and sharing data about Lepidoptera
  • F. Martin Brown and Bernard Heineman, Jamaica and its Butterflies (E. W. Classey, London 1972), Plate VII


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