Anartia jatrophae

Taxobox
name = "Anartia jatrophae"


image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Nymphalinae
tribus = Victorinini
genus = "Anartia"
species = "A. jatrophae"
binomial = "Anartia jatrophae"
binomial_authority = (Linnaeus, 1763)The White Peacock "(Anartia jatrophae)" is a species of butterfly found in the southeastern United States, Central America, and throughout much of South America.

The males of the species display a unique territorial behavior, in which they stake out a territory typically 15 meters in diameter that contains larval host plants. They perch in this area and aggressively protect it from other insects and other male white peacocks. Fact|date=August 2007

External links

* [http://www.expasy.org/uniprot/Q8T5D4 Protein sequencing]
* [http://www.ebi.ac.uk/newt/display?search=165846&from=www Uniprot Taxonomy]