''Eurema simulatrix'', the changeable grass yellow, is a
butterfly
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 ...
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 ...
. It is found from
Burma
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to
Sundaland
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,
Cambodia
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and the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
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* hil, Republ ...
.
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The length of the forewings is for males and for females. Adults have two cell spots on the underside of the forewings and a large, almost cleft, reddish-brown apical spot on the forewing.
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:[
*''E. s. simulatrix'' (Philippines: Mindanao)
*''E. s. princessae'' Morishita, 1973 (Palawan)
*''E. s. tecmessa'' (de Nicéville & Martin, ]896
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Events
By place Europe
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(southern Burma, Peninsular Malaya, southern Thailand, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo) – de Nicéville's grass yellow
*''E. s. sarinoides'' (Fruhstorfer, 1910) (Sikkim to Burma, northern Thailand, Laos) – scarce changeable grass yellow
*''E. s. littorea'' Morishita, 1968 (Langkawi)
*''E. s. inouei'' Shirôzu & Yata, 1973 (Thailand, Cambodia, Indo-China)
*''E. s. tiomanica'' Okubo, 1983 (Tioman)
'' Eurema irena'' is sometimes treated as a subspecies of ''Eurema simulatrix''.
References
simulatrix
Butterflies described in 1891
Butterflies of Singapore
Butterflies of Indochina
Butterflies of Borneo
Butterflies of Java
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