white peacock anartia jatrophae


The White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae) is a species of butterfly found in the southeastern United States, Central America, and throughout much of South America. The males of the species display a unique territorial behavior, in which they stake out a territory typically 15 meters in diameter that contains larval host plants. They perch in this area and aggressively protect it from other insects and other male white peacocks


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Location: long island new york
Photo credit: © Ricardo de Masi / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: ., :, anartia, animalia, arthropoda, beautiful, butterfly, class:, family:, flowers, genus:, insecta, jatrophae, kingdom:, lepidoptera, nymphalidae, nymphalinae, order:, papilionoidea, peacock, pecock, phylum:, rhopalocera, species:, subfamily:, superfamily:, tribe:, victorinini, white