Creole Pearly-eye

Enodia creola · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

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Creole Pearly-eye
Photo: Judy Gallagher, CC BY

The Creole pearly-eye is a brush-footed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. Some taxonomists place it in the genus Enodia, calling it Enodia creola.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

The Creole pearly-eye belongs to the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 11 of 51 states and DC. Most records: South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina, Illinois, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: endemic in North America; endemic in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Creole Pearly-eye photo 2
Photo: Arlo Sitimans, CC BY
Creole Pearly-eye photo 3
Photo: John Abrams, CC BY
Creole Pearly-eye photo 4
Photo: Will McFarland, CC BY
Creole Pearly-eye photo 5
Photo: iNaturalist user, CC0

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethe_creola

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-29 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-29.

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