''Appias'', commonly called puffins or albatrosses, is a genus of

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 ...

in the subfamily

Pierinae The Pierinae are a large subfamily of Pieridae, pierid butterfly, butterflies. The subfamily is one of several clades of butterflies often referred to as the whites. Species It includes the following species (additional species can be found und ...

(whites) found in Africa and southern Asia.

Species

Listed alphabetically: *'' Appias ada'' (Stoll,

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– rare albatross *'' Appias aegis'' (Felder, C & R Felder, 1861) – forest white *'' Appias albina'' (Boisduval, 1836) – common albatross or white albatross *'' Appias aroa'' (Ribbe, 1900) *'' Appias athama'' (Blanchard, 1848) *'' Appias caeca'' Corbet, 1941 *'' Appias cardena'' (Hewitson,

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*'' Appias celestina'' (Boisduval, 1832) – common migrant *'' Appias clementina'' (Felder, C, 1860) *'' Appias dolorosa'' Fruhstorfer, 1910 *'' Appias drusilla'' (Cramer, 777 – Florida white or tropical white *'' Appias epaphia'' (Cramer,

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– diverse albatross or African albatross *'' Appias galene'' (Felder, C & R Felder, 1865) *?'' Appias hero'' (Fabricius, 1793) *'' Appias hombroni'' (Lucas, 1852) *'' Appias inanis'' van Eecke, 1913 *'' Appias indra'' (Moore, 1857) – plain puffin *'' Appias ithome'' (C. & R. Felder, 1859) *'' Appias lalage'' (Doubleday, 1842) – spot puffin *'' Appias lalassis'' Grose-Smith, 1887 *'' Appias lasti'' (Grose-Smith, 1889) – Last's albatross *'' Appias leis'' (Geyer,

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*'' Appias libythea'' (Fabricius, 1775) – striped albatross *'' Appias lyncida'' (Cramer, 777 – chocolate albatross *'' Appias maria'' (Semper, 1875) *'' Appias mata'' Kheil, 1884 *'' Appias melania'' (Fabricius, 1775) – grey albatross *'' Appias nephele'' Hewitson,

/small> *'' Appias nero'' (Fabricius, 1793) – orange albatross *'' Appias nupta'' (Fruhstorfer, 1897) *'' Appias olferna'' Swinhoe, 1890 – eastern striped albatross *'' Appias panda'' Fruhstorfer, 1903 – Nicobar albatross *'' Appias pandione'' (Geyer,

*'' Appias paulina'' (Cramer, 777 – Ceylon lesser albatross or white albatross, Learn about Butterflies *'' Appias perlucens'' (Butler, 1898) *'' Appias phaola'' (Doubleday, 1847) – dirty albatross or Congo white *'' Appias phoebe'' (C. & R. Felder, 1861) Appias phoebe MHNT

*'' Appias placidia'' (Stoll,

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*'' Appias punctifera'' d'Almeida, 1939 *'' Appias remedios'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1990 *'' Appias sabina'' (C. & R. Felder,

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– Sabine albatross or albatross white *'' Appias sylvia'' (Fabricius, 1775) – woodland white or common albatross *'' Appias waltraudae'' Schröder, 1977 *'' Appias wardii'' (Moore, 1884) – lesser albatross *'' Appias zarinda'' (Boisduval, 1836) – eastern orange albatross

References

External links

Images representing ''Appias''
at EOL Pieridae genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner Pierini Taxa described in 1819 {{Pieridae-stub