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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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