Enodia portlandia

Enodia portlandia, the southern pearly eye, Portland pearlyeye or just pearly eye, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the United States from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas east through the southeast.^[3]

Enodia portlandia
Conservation status
Apparently Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Enodia
Species:	E. portlandia
Binomial name
Enodia portlandia (Fabricius, 1781)[2]
Subspecies
E. p. portlandia E. p. floralae Heitzman & dos Passos, 1974 E. p. missarka Heitzman & dos Passos, 1974
Synonyms
Papilio portlandia Fabricius, 1781 Oreas andromacha Hübner, [1809] Enodia androcardia Hübner, 1821 Lethe portlandia Gnodia portlandia

The wingspan is 56–70 mm. Adults feed on sap, rotting fruit, carrion and dung.

The larvae feed on the leaves of Arundinaria tecta. The species overwinters in the larval stage.