Eurema nise, the Mimosa 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

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 family. It is found from Argentina

Argentina

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 north to the Texas

Texas

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 Gulf Coast and southern Florida

Florida

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. It is an occasional stray to central Texas

Texas

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 and south-eastern Arizona

Arizona

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 and rarely to southern California

California

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, southern Colorado

Colorado

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 and Kansas

Kansas

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. The habitat consists of brushy woodland edges.

The wingspan

Wingspan

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 is 29 millimetre. Both sexes are yellow. The upperside of the forewing has narrow black outer edges. Black margins of the hindwing are uncommon in males, but always absent in females. Adults are on wing from May to August in southern Florida, September to November in southern Texas and all year round in the tropics. Adults feed on flower nectar.

The larvae feed on Mimosa pudica

Mimosa pudica

Mimosa pudica , is a creeping annual or perennial herb often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken, re-opening minutes later...

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Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:

• Eurema nise nise (Jamaica)
• Eurema nise stygma (Boisduval, 1836) (Peru, Ecuador)
• Eurema nise tenella (Boisduval, 1836) (Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Argentina, Paraguay)
• Eurema nise larae (Herrich-Schäffer, 1862) (Cuba)
• Eurema nise nelphe (R. Felder, 1869) (Mexico, Panama)
• Eurema nise floscula (Weeks, 1901) (Bolivia, Argentina, Peru)