Phoebis

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Phoebis

Butterfly genus in family Pieridae

Phoebis, or sulphurs, is a genus of butterflies, belonging to the subfamily Coliadinae of the "whites" or family Pieridae. They are native to the Americas.

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Selected species

  • Phoebis agarithe (Boisduval, [1836]) – large orange sulphur (southern US to Peru)
  • Phoebis argante (Fabricius, 1775) – apricot sulphur, Argante giant sulphur (Mexico to Peru and Brazil, Caribbean)
  • Phoebis avellaneda (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865) – red-splashed sulphur (Cuba)
  • Phoebis bourkei (Dixey, 1933) – (Ecuador)
  • Phoebis editha (Butler, 1870) – Edith's sulphur (Haiti)
  • Phoebis marcellina[2]
  • Phoebis neocypris (Hübner, [1823]) – tailed sulphur (Mexico to Peru, Brazil)
  • Phoebis philea (Linnaeus, 1763) – orange-barred sulphur, yellow apricot (Mexico to Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Hispaniola)
  • Phoebis sennae (Linnaeus, 1758) – cloudless

sulphur, common yellow (southern North America to South America)

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References

  1. [1]
    Phoebis, funet.fi
  2. [2]
    Núñez, Rayner; Genaro, Julio A.; Pérez‐Asso, Antonio; Murillo‐Ramos, Leidys; Janzen, Daniel H.; Hallwachs, Winnie; Wahlberg, Niklas; Hausmann, Axel (April 2020). "Species delimitation and evolutionary relationships among Phoebis New World sulphur butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae, Coliadinae)" (PDF). Systematic Entomology. 45 (2): 481–492. doi:10.1111/syen.12408. ISSN 0307-6970.


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