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Catopsilia

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Also known as Emigrant

Catopsilia is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae, commonly called migrants or emigrants.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyPieridae
Observations recorded49,359

Catopsilia es un género de mariposas de la familia Pieridae.​

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
186
With media
18
Family
Pieridae
Collections
ALMNH, USNM, UMNH, DMNS, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, OH (CLEV), NHMUK
Recorded in
United States, Mexico, Vietnam, South Africa, Philippines, Malaysia, Panama, Brazil

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Catopsilia is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae, commonly called migrants or emigrants.

==Species== Ordered alphabetically. Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775) – African emigrant, African migrant, or common vagrant Catopsilia gorgophone (Boisduval, 1836) – yellow migrant Catopsilia pomona (Fabricius, 1775) – common emigrant or lemon emigrant Catopsilia pyranthe (Linnaeus, 1758) – mottled emigrant or white migrant Catopsilia scylla (Linnaeus, 1763) – orange emigrant or orange migrant Catopsilia thauruma (Reakirt, 1866) – Madagascar migrant

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Catopsilia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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