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Zerene
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Zerene is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae commonly called dogfaces. The closest living relative is the genus Colias. They are migratory.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyPieridae
Observations recorded29,246
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 41
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Pieridae
- Collections
- UMNH, DMNS, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CSU, FMNH, MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM (MPM)
- Recorded in
- Mexico, United States
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Coliadinae
- Image
- Zerene eurydice m.jpg
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- Zerene
- taxon name
- Zerene
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Zerene
- taxon common name
- Dogfaces
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Zerene is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae commonly called dogfaces. The closest living relative is the genus Colias. They are migratory.
==Species== Source: Zerene cesonia (Stoll, 1790) – southern dogface Zerene eurydice (Boisduval, 1855) – California dogface
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zerene” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.