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Empress Leilia
Asterocampa leilia
Asterocampa leilia, the Empress Leilia, Leilia hackberry butterfly or desert hackberry, is a species of butterfly in the Nymphalidae family.
From the article Asterocampa leilia on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Adults are brownish orange, with white and black spots on the bottom of the wings. The length of the wings is 1.5 to 2 inches (38 to 51 mm).
Range & habitat
The species can be found in the south-western United States, including Arizona and Texas, as well as Mexico.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
Adults feed on dung, sap and rotten fruit. In very rare cases the species will feed on nectar. They live in canyons, streamsides, thorn scrubs, and washes. Males of the species will wait near their food plants for females to appear. Larvae feed on hackberry.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Ecology and habitat”
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 148793.