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Pieridae

236 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Pieridae

Colias myrmidone (Esper, 1781)

Colias myrmidone is a butterfly species with distinct wing markings, found from Western Asia to parts of central Europe.

Colias chrysotheme (Esper, 1777)

Colias chrysotheme is a small butterfly species found in Central and East Eurasian open low-altitude habitats, with distinct sexual dimorphism.

Colias aurorina Herrich-Schäffer, 1850

Colias aurorina is a large Colias butterfly species with distinct sexual differences in wing color and pattern.

Colias dimera Doubleday, 1847

The Dimera sulphur (Colias dimera) is a common Pieridae butterfly found in the Neotropical realm’s Tropical Andes.

Colias euxanthe Felder & Felder, 1865

The Puna clouded sulphur (Colias euxanthe) is a Pieridae butterfly found in the Tropical Andes of northwestern South America.

Colias hyale (Linnaeus, 1758)

Colias hyale is a butterfly species common across the Palaearctic Region, with distinct male, female, egg, larva, and pupa forms.

Colias alfacariensis Ribbe, 1905

Colias alfacariensis is a butterfly that forms a complex with Colias hyale, best distinguished by its caterpillar form.

Abaeis nicippe (Cramer, 1779)

Abaeis nicippe, the sleepy orange, is a North American butterfly named for a distinct closed-eye-like wing marking.

Abaeis boisduvaliana

Boisduval's yellow is a Pieridae butterfly found across the Americas, that feeds on flower nectar as an adult and Cassia as larvae.

Abaeis mexicana

Abaeis mexicana, the Mexican yellow, is a North American butterfly with distinct wing markings and seasonal underside color variation.

Abaeis salome

Abaeis salome (Salome yellow) is a rare migrant Pieridae butterfly found in tropical America and southern Texas.

Abaeis albula

Abaeis albula, the ghost yellow, is a Pieridae butterfly found from southern Texas to Brazil that feeds on flower nectar and Cassia plants.

Zerene eurydice (Boisduval, 1855)

Zerene eurydice, the California dogface butterfly, is a species restricted to California with distinct sexually dimorphic wing coloring.

Zerene cesonia (Stoll, 1790)

Zerene cesonia, the southern dogface, is a yellow butterfly with distinct wing markings, specific habitats, and described life stages.

Pyrisitia lisa (Boisduval & Leconte, 1829)

Pyrisitia lisa, the little yellow, is a North and Central American yellow butterfly with specific wing markings and seasonal range expansion.

Pyrisitia nise (Cramer, 1775)

Pyrisitia nise, the mimosa yellow, is a Pieridae butterfly found in the Americas with yellow wings and larvae that feed on Mimosa pudica.

Pyrisitia proterpia (Fabricius, 1775)

Pyrisitia proterpia, the tailed orange, is a butterfly with distinct seasonal wing variations, found in open North American habitats.

Pyrisitia dina (Poey, 1832)

Pyrisitia dina, the dina yellow, is a Pieridae butterfly found from Panama to southern Florida.

Pyrisitia leuce (Boisduval, 1836)

Hall's sulphur (Pyrisitia leuce) is a Pieridae butterfly found in the West Indies and northern/eastern South America.

Kricogonia lyside (Godart, 1819)

Kricogonia lyside, the lyside sulphur butterfly, lives in subtropical scrub, with variable appearance and exclusive Guaiacum feeding larvae.

Rhabdodryas trite (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rhabdodryas is a monotypic pierid butterfly genus, its only species is straight-line sulphur Rhabdodryas trite.

Dercas verhuelli (van der Hoeven, 1839)

Dercas verhuelli, the tailed sulphur, is a small pierid butterfly found across parts of South and East Asia.

Gandaca harina (Horsfield, 1829)

Gandaca harina, the tree yellow, is a Pieridae butterfly first described in 1829, found across South and Southeast Asia.

Eurema hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758)

Eurema hecabe, the common grass yellow, is a lepidopteran with seasonal polyphenism, parasitized by Wolbachia that alter its sex ratios.

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