genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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butterflies
Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
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family
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Pieridae
The Pieridae are a large family (biology), family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from Afrotropical realm, tropical Africa and Indomalayan realm, tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern ...
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
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Species
Listed alphabetically:Interactive Listing Butterflies of America
*'' Aphrissa boisduvalii'' (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Boisduval's sulphur (Mexico to Peru)
*'' Aphrissa fluminensis'' (d'Almeida, 1921) – Rio de Janeiro sulphur (Costa Rica, Brazil, Peru)
*'' Aphrissa godartiana'' (Swainson, 1821) – Godart's sulphur (Hispaniola, Jamaica)
*'' Aphrissa neleis'' (Boisduval, 1836) – pink-spot sulphur (Caribbean)
*'' Aphrissa orbis'' (Poey, 1832) – orbed sulphur, orbis sulphur (Caribbean)
*'' Aphrissa schausi'' (Avinoff, 1926) – Schaus' sulphur (Mexico, Guatemala)
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Aphrissa statira
''Aphrissa statira'', the statira sulphur, is a species of Lepidoptera in the family ''Pieridae''. The species is a medium-sized yellow butterfly, with females more pale than males. They are found from southern regions of Florida and Texas throug ...
'' (Cramer, 777 – statira sulphur, pale sulphur (Florida to Mexico, Caribbean)
*'' Aphrissa wallacei'' (C. & R. Felder, 1862) – Wallace's sulphur (Costa Rica to Argentina)