butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...
in the family
Pieridae
The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...
Dercas enara
''Dercas'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae found in southeast Asia.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
'' Swinhoe, 1899
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Dercas gobrias
''Dercas gobrias'' is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1864. It is found in the Indomalayan realm
The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of Sou ...
'' Hewitson, 1864
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Dercas lycorias
''Dercas lycorias'', the "plain sulphur", is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae (colloquially the "yellows and whites"), which is found in India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is th ...
'' (Doubleday, 1842) – plain sulphur
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Dercas nina
''Dercas'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae found in southeast Asia.
Species
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