Enantia Limnorina
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''Enantia limnorina'' is a
butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
in the family
Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...
. It is found in
Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
(Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro). The species was first described in 1865 by C. & R. Felder as ''Leptalis limnorina''.


References

Dismorphiinae Butterflies described in 1865 Fauna of Brazil Pieridae of South America Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder Taxa named by Rudolf Felder {{Pieridae-stub