Salome Yellow

Eurema salome, the Salome yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Peru northward through tropical America. It is an extremely rare migrant to the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The habitat consists of forest openings and edges and roadcuts.

The wingspan is . Adults are on wing from August to September in southern Texas and all year round in the tropics. Adults feed on flower nectar of a wide variety of flowers.

The larvae feed on Diphysa species.

Subspecies: The following subspecies are recognized:

• E. s. salome (Peru)
• E. s. limoneus (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Venezuela)
• E. s. gaugamela (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) (Colombia, Venezuela)
• E. s. jamapa (Reakirt, 1866) (Mexico)
• E. s. xystra (d´Almeida, 1936) (Ecuador)