Anaea andria

Anaea andria
Conservation status
Apparently Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
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.[2][3][4]

Host plants include goatweed, Texas croton, and prairie tea; all in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. [5]

The MONA or Hodges number for Anaea andria is 4554.[6]

Goatweed leafwing, Anaea andria

Subspecies

These two subspecies belong to the species Anaea andria:

• Anaea andria andria
• Anaea andria andriaesta Johnson & Comstock, 1941

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. "Anaea andria species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
5. "Goatweed Leafwing". butterfliesandmoths.org. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
6. "North American Moth Photographers Group, Anaea andria". Retrieved 2019-09-23.

Further reading

• Pohl, Greg; Patterson, Bob; Pelham, Jonathan (2016). Annotated taxonomic checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico (Report). doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.2186.3287.

External links

• Media related to Anaea andria at Wikimedia Commons