Phoebis

Taxonavigation

Phoebis sennae

Taxonavigation: Papilionoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Pieridae
Subfamilia: Coliadinae
Genus: Phoebis
Species: P. agarithe – P. argante – P. avellaneda – P. bourkei – P. editha – P. marcellina – P. neocypris – P. philea – P. sennae

But see Núñez et al., 2020 where several others elevated to species.

Name

Phoebis Hübner, 1819

Type species: Phoebis cypris Hübner, 1819 (=Papilio argante Fabricius, 1775)

Synonyms

• Colias Hübner, 1819
• Callidryas Boisduval & Le Conte, 1830
• Metura Butler, 1873
• Parura Kirby, 1896

References

• Brown, F.M., 1929. A revision of the genus Phoebis (Lepidoptera). American Museum Novitates 368: 1–22. PDF. Reference page. 
• Cong, Q., Shen, J., Warren, A.D. & Grishin, N.D., 2016. Speciation in Cloudless Sulphurs gleaned from complete genomes. Genome Biology and Evolution March 6th, 2016. PDF. Reference page. 
• Lamas, G. 2004. (ed.) Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea. In Heppner, J.B. (ed.) Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Vol.5A, Pt.4A. Assn. for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville. 439pp. Reference page. 
• Murillo-Ramos, L., Hernández Torres, R., Núñez Aguila, R. & Ayazo, R. 2018. New insights on the taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships of the Neotropical genus Phoebis (Pieridae: Coliadinae) revealed by molecular and morphological data. Zootaxa 4457(1): 179–188. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.10 Reference page. 
• Núñez, R., Genaro, J. A., Pérez-Asso, A., Murillo-Ramos, L., Janzen, D. H., Hallwachs, W., Wahlberg, N. & Hausmann, A. 2020. Species delimitation and evolutionary relationships among Phoebis New World sulphur butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae, Coliadinae). Systematic Entomology 45(2): 481–492. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12408 Reference page.