''Cepora'' is a

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 ...

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 ...

, commonly called gulls, in the family

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 ...

. The genus contains about 20

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shared between the

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and

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Species

Listed alphabetically:''Cepora''
funet.fi *'' Cepora abnormis'' (Wallace, 1867) – Papuan gull *'' Cepora aspasia'' (Stoll,

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*'' Cepora bathseba'' (Snellen, 1902) *'' Cepora boisduvaliana'' (C & R Felder, 1862) *'' Cepora celebensis'' (Rothschild, 1892) *'' Cepora eperia'' (Boisduval, 1836) – Sulawesi gull *'' Cepora eurygonia'' (Hopffer, 1874) *''

Cepora fora ''Cepora fora'' is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found on Sulawesi Sulawesi ( ), also known as Celebes ( ), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the List of islands by area, world's 11th-largest i ...

'' (Fruhstorfer, 1897) *'' Cepora himiko'' Hanafusa, 1994 *'' Cepora judith'' (Fabricius, 1787) – orange gull *'' Cepora julia'' (Doherty, 1891) *'' Cepora kotakii'' Hanafusa, 1989 *'' Cepora laeta'' (Hewitson, 1862) – Timor gull *'' Cepora licea'' (Fabricius, 1787) – Nias gull *'' Cepora nadina'' (Lucas, 1852) – lesser gull *''

Cepora nerissa ''Cepora nerissa'', the common gull, is a small to medium-sized butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is native to Sri Lanka, India, China, southeast Asia, and Indonesia. Description Wet-season brood Male u ...

'' (Fabricius, 1775) – common gull *'' Cepora pactolicus'' (Butler, 1865) *'' Cepora perimale'' (Donovan, 1805) – caper gull, Australian gull *'' Cepora temena'' (Hewitson, 1861) *'' Cepora timnatha'' (Hewitson, 1862) *'' Cepora wui'' Chou, Zhang & Wang, 2001

References

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Pierini Pieridae genera Taxa named by Gustaf Johan Billberg Taxa described in 1820 {{Pieridae-stub