| Scientific Name | Specimen Records |
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| Nathalis iole Boisduval | ATBI Database | ||||
| Common Name | |||||
| Dainty Sulfur | |||||
| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | |
| Animalia | Arthropoda | Insecta | Lepidoptera | Pieridae | |
| Animals | Arthropods | Insects | Butterflies, Skippers, and Moths | Yellow-white butterflies and sulphurs | |
The Dainty Sulfur is relatively common butterfly in the family Pieridae, a group of butterflies that are mostly white or yellow in color; the host plants for most of the butterflies in this family are in the mustard (Brassicaceae) family.
The Dainty Sulfur is common in the Midwest and Southwest, as well as Florida and southern Georgia. In Tennessee its range just barely makes it into western Tennessee. The species is absent from most states east of the Mississippi, including the Appalachians. However, the butterfly is highly emigratory, meaning it moves out of its normal home range, particularly during the late summer/early autumn. Because of this habit of emigrating, the butterfly can often be found as a stray far outside its normal range.
The Dainty Sulfur was confirmed as a new park record, making it the 99th butterfly species documented inside the Park’s border!
Photographs
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Photo by Jason Love.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Text
Jason Love, Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, 2007.Photographs
Photo by Jason Love.Web Page
Charles WilderREFERENCES
Scholtens, B. G. 2005. Personal communication. Department of Biology, College of Charleston. Charleston, SC 29424-0001.
Trently, David. 2007. Personal communication. Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, University of Tennesse, Knoxville.
