Phoebis Explained

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^[1]
• 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

Notes and References

1. 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 . en . 45 . 2 . 481–492 . 10.1111/syen.12408 . 2020SysEn..45..481N . 0307-6970.