Subfamily Apaturinae: Hackberry Butterflies The adults: are medium sized with eyes clear with several small black spots, they have four legs and they are brown with five or six black spots on the hindwing. Larvae: Their body thickest at the middle with green with yellow markings, no spines on body. The head with short branched horns at the top and short spines on the sides; forked rear end. The caterpillar hides in a leaf and silk nest. Pupae: There have two point on the head; green with yellow markings; flattened sideways and angular. Supported only by a silk button at the rear end. Below are some of them
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- American Snout "Libytheana Carinenta"
- Hackberry Butterfly "Asterocampa Celtis"
- Tawny Emperor "Asterocampa Clyton"