Eurema salome, the Salome 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 Peru

Peru

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 northward through tropical America. It is an extremely rare migrant to the lower Rio Grande Valley

Rio Grande Valley

The Rio Grande Valley or the Lower Rio Grande Valley, informally called The Valley, is an area located in the southernmost tip of South Texas...

 in Texas

Texas

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. The habitat consists of forest openings and edges and roadcuts.

The wingspan

Wingspan

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 is 47 millimetre. The wings are yellow, the upper surface of the forewings with black margins projecting into the yellow ground colour. Males have a black border on the hindwings, while females are lacking this border. Both sexes have tail-like hindwing projections. Adults are on wing from August to September in southern Texas and all year round in the tropics. Adults feed on flower nectar of a wide variety of flowers.

The larvae feed on Diphysa

Diphysa

Diphysa is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae....

species.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:

• Eurema salome salome (Peru)
• Eurema salome limoneus (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Venezuela)
• Eurema salome gaugamela (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) (Colombia, Venezuela)
• Eurema salome jamapa (Reakirt, 1866) (Mexico)
• Eurema salome xystra (d'Almeida, 1936) (Ecuador)