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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
  6. Mallow Family
  7. Sidas
  8. Showy Fanpetals
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What Showy Fanpetals supports

22 native animals
supported in the US
8 caterpillars 1 hosts 13 flowers

Caterpillars All

8 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis
  • Common Streaky-Skipper Celotes nessus on sidas
  • Laviana White-Skipper Heliopetes laviana on sidas
  • Cotton Tipworm Moth Crocidosema plebejana on sidas
  • Rufous-banded Crambid Moth Mimoschinia rufofascialis on sidas
  • Straight-lined Mallow Moth Bagisara rectifascia on sidas
  • Okra Leafworm Moth Anomis illita on sidas
  • Chionodes mariona on sidas

Hosted animals All

1 native gall makers, leaf miners and other animals living on or in it, most recorded first.

  • Mallow Leaf Miner Calycomyza malvae on sidas

Flower visitors All

13 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Otomi Longhorn Melissoptila otomita on sidas
  • Barred Yellow Eurema daira on sidas
  • Tepanec Long-horned Bee Melissodes tepaneca on sidas
  • Auriferous Green Sweat Bee Augochlora aurifera on sidas
  • Honduran Calliopsis Calliopsis hondurasica on sidas
  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus on sidas
  • White Peacock Anartia jatrophae on sidas
  • Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus on sidas
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