Phoebis

Phoebis
	Phoebis avellaneda
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Coliadini
Genus:	Phoebis; Hübner, [1819]
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Colias Hübner, [1819] (preocc. Colias Fabricius, 1807); Callidryas Boisduval & Leconte, [1830]; Metura Butler, 1873; Parura Kirby, 1896;

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.

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)

Moved:

Phoebis orbis moved to Aphrissa orbis (Poey, 1832) – orbed sulphur

References

^ Phoebis, funet.fi
^ 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)". Systematic Entomology. 45 (2): 481–492. Bibcode:2020SysEn..45..481N. doi:10.1111/syen.12408. ISSN 0307-6970.

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[1] Phoebis, funet.fi

[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)". Systematic Entomology. 45 (2): 481–492. Bibcode:2020SysEn..45..481N. doi:10.1111/syen.12408. ISSN 0307-6970.

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