Florida Purplewing

Eunica tatila · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Nymphalidae

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Florida Purplewing
Photo: Nick Block, CC BY

The Florida purplewing belongs to the brushfoot group of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

The Florida purplewing is a tropical brushfoot butterfly in the Nymphalidae family.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is native to the Americas, including the southern parts of Texas and Florida in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 2 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Florida, Texas.

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

Source: GBIF

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Florida Purplewing photo 2
Photo: Dennis Vollmar, CC BY
Florida Purplewing photo 3
Photo: Dennis Vollmar, CC BY
Florida Purplewing photo 4
Photo: John Rosford, CC BY
Florida Purplewing photo 5
Photo: John Rosford, CC BY

Same family (Nymphalidae)

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Sources

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

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

Text written 2026-10-25 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-25.

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