Eurema dina, the Dina Yellow, is a butterfly

Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 in the Pieridae

Pieridae

The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and Asia. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow or orange in coloration, often with black spots...

 family. It is found from Panama

Panama

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 north to southern Florida

Florida

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. The species is regularly recorded from southern Texas

Texas

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 and south-eastern Arizona

Arizona

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

The wingspan

Wingspan

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 is 32 millimetre. 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 nectar of Lantana

Lantana

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, Asclepias

Asclepias

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and small-flowered Asteraceae

Asteraceae

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 species in South America.

The larvae feed on Alvaradoa amorphoides

Alvaradoa amorphoides

Alvaradoa amorphoides is a species of plant in the Simaroubaceae family. It is a common native plant in Mexico but is also native to southern Florida, where is it endangered.-External links:* * *...

in Florida and Picramnia

Picramnia

Picramnia is a genus of plant considered to be in the family Picramniaceae, but sometimes placed in Simaroubaceae. The name is conserved against the genera Pseudo-brasilium Adans., and Tariri Aubl., both which have been rejected .-Selected species:* P. acreana Ule* P. andrade-limae...

species in Central America.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:

• Eurema dina dina (Cuba)
• Eurema dina westwoodi (Boisduval, 1836) (Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama)
• Eurema dina parvumbra (Kaye, 1925) (Jamaica)
• Eurema dina helios Bates, 1934 (Bahamas)
• Eurema dina bayobanex Bates, 1939 (Haiti)