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Definition of Banded purple
1. Noun. North American butterfly with blue-black wings crossed by a broad white band.
Generic synonyms: Brush-footed Butterfly, Four-footed Butterfly, Nymphalid, Nymphalid Butterfly
Group relationships: Genus Limenitis, Limenitis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banded Purple
Literary usage of Banded purple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Moths and Butterflies by Mary Cynthia Dickerson (1901)
"In that part of the country (southern Wisconsin and eastward to the Atlantic
coast) where the habitats of these two butterflies — the banded purple at the ..."
2. A Manual on the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"North of this region, of these three forms only the banded purple occurs ; south
of it only the Red-spotted Purple is found. ..."
3. How to Know the Butterflies: A Manual of the Butterflies of the Eastern by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1904)
"Every time we passed this spot we saw our banded purple spreading its ...
The other banded purple took up its abode on a side hill covered with young ..."
4. Frail Children of the Air: Excursions Into the World of Butterflies by Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1895)
"... which, though it feeds upon the produce of the garden, will scarcely let you
approach in any near proximity, and the showy Red-banded Purple ..."
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