''Eurema dina'', the dina yellow, 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 ...

. The species was first described by Felipe Poey in 1832. It is found from

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north to southern

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. The species is regularly recorded from southern

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and south-eastern

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. The habitat consists of forest edges, brushy fields and open forest. The

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is . Males are orange yellow with a very narrow black border on the outer and costal margins of the forewing. Females are yellow with black at the forewing tip. On the underside of both sexes, three black spots are found on the hindwing. The wet-season (summer) form is paler. Adults are on wing year round in southern Florida. Strays can be found in southern Texas in November and southern Arizona in October. Adults feed on flower

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of '' Lantana'', ''

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'' and small-flowered

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species in South America. The larvae feed on ''

Alvaradoa amorphoides ''Alvaradoa amorphoides'', the Mexican alvaradoa, is a species of plant in the Picramniaceae family. It is a common native plant in Mexico but is also native to southern Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of t ...

'' in Florida and ''

Picramnia ''Picramnia'', the bitterbushes, is a genus of plant considered to be in the family Picramniaceae, but sometimes placed in Simaroubaceae The Simaroubaceae are a small, mostly tropical, family in the order Sapindales. In recent decades, it has ...

'' species in Central America.

Subspecies

The following

subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

are recognized: *''E. d. dina'' (Cuba) *''E. d. westwoodi'' (Boisduval, 1836) (Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama) *''E. d. parvumbra'' (Kaye, 1925) (Jamaica) *''E. d. helios'' Bates, 1934 (Bahamas) *''E. d. bayobanex'' Bates, 1939 (Haiti)

References

Dina Dina ( ar, دينا, he, דִּינָה, also spelled Dinah, Dena, Deena) is a female given name. Women * Dina bint Abdul-Hamid (1929–2019), Queen consort of Jordan, first wife of King Hussein * Princess Dina Mired of Jordan (born 1965), Princ ...

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