#3122 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Sleepy Orange

Eurema nicippe

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © pbedell · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Brian · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Mark Rosenstein · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jim P. Brock · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © tex-anne · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Michael Rosenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © David Dodd · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Ignacio A. Rodríguez · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. © cam392417 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Eurema nicippe , the sleepy orange , is a North American butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is also found in the West Indies, Costa Rica and Belize.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 36,174iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).