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Rhopalocera (home) -> Pieridae -> Pierinae

Pieridae

The Pieridae family, commonly called the white and sulfurs, are highly variable in coloration in spite of their name. The butterflies are generally medium in size.

Pierinae

Appias indra plana
(Plain Puffin)
Appias libythea olferna
(Striped Albatross)
Appias lyncida vasava
(Chocolate Albatross)
Appias paulina distanti
(Lesser Abatross)
Cepora iudith malaya
(Orange Gull)
Delias hyparete metarete
(Painted Jezebel)
Delias pasithoe parthenope
(Red Base Jezebel)
Hebomoia glaucippe aturia
(Great Orange Tip)
Leptosia nina malayana
(Psyche)
Pareronia valeria lutescens
(The Wanderer)
Pieris canidia canidia
(Cabbage White)
Prioneris philonome themana
(Redspot Sawtooth)
Saletara panda distanti
(Malaysian Albatross)
 




Rhopalocera (home) -> Pieridae -> Pierinae

Pieridae

The Pieridae family, commonly called the white and sulfurs, are highly variable in coloration in spite of their name. The butterflies are generally medium in size.

Pierinae

Appias indra plana
(Plain Puffin)
Appias libythea olferna
(Striped Albatross)
Appias lyncida vasava
(Chocolate Albatross)
Appias paulina distanti
(Lesser Abatross)
Cepora iudith malaya
(Orange Gull)
Delias hyparete metarete
(Painted Jezebel)
Delias pasithoe parthenope
(Red Base Jezebel)
Hebomoia glaucippe aturia
(Great Orange Tip)
Leptosia nina malayana
(Psyche)
Pareronia valeria lutescens
(The Wanderer)
Pieris canidia canidia
(Cabbage White)
Prioneris philonome themana
(Redspot Sawtooth)
Saletara panda distanti
(Malaysian Albatross)
 




Rhopalocera (home) -> Pieridae -> Pierinae

Pieridae

The Pieridae family, commonly called the white and sulfurs, are highly variable in coloration in spite of their name. The butterflies are generally medium in size.

Pierinae

Appias indra plana
(Plain Puffin)
Appias libythea olferna
(Striped Albatross)
Appias lyncida vasava
(Chocolate Albatross)
Appias paulina distanti
(Lesser Abatross)
Cepora iudith malaya
(Orange Gull)
Delias hyparete metarete
(Painted Jezebel)
Delias pasithoe parthenope
(Red Base Jezebel)
Hebomoia glaucippe aturia
(Great Orange Tip)
Leptosia nina malayana
(Psyche)
Pareronia valeria lutescens
(The Wanderer)
Pieris canidia canidia
(Cabbage White)
Prioneris philonome themana
(Redspot Sawtooth)
Saletara panda distanti
(Malaysian Albatross)
 




Rhopalocera (home)

Pieridae

The Pieridae family, commonly called the white and sulfurs, are highly variable in coloration in spite of their name. The butterflies are generally medium in size.

Pierinae

Appias indra plana
(Plain Puffin)
Appias libythea olferna
(Striped Albatross)
Appias lyncida vasava
(Chocolate Albatross)
Appias paulina distanti
(Lesser Abatross)
Cepora iudith malaya
(Orange Gull)
Delias hyparete metarete
(Painted Jezebel)
Delias pasithoe parthenope
(Red Base Jezebel)
Hebomoia glaucippe aturia
(Great Orange Tip)
Leptosia nina malayana
(Psyche)
Pareronia valeria lutescens
(The Wanderer)
Pieris canidia canidia
(Cabbage White)
Prioneris philonome themana
(Redspot Sawtooth)
Saletara panda distanti
(Malaysian Albatross)
 




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Lethe europa malaya
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Acknowledgements

This checklist is updated regularly and validated in consultation with Dr Laurence G Kirton (Forest Research Institute of Malaysia), and previously, the late Col John N Eliot, (of the Butterflies of the Malay Peninsula, Edition 4). Contributions to the sightings and latest additions to the Singapore Checklist are with special thanks to the hardworking members of ButterflyCircle.


Singapore is home to 334 species of butterflies, that are feeding on 198 species of hostplants.


Legend for Life History record:
Completed Partial None

Updates

The latest update in 2008 is consistent with the recent re-classification developments and updates to C&P4 in the Malaysian Nature Journal 59(1), pp 1 - 49, and DNA mapping of the family Nymphalidae by Wahlberg et al, whereby the Subfamilies Nymphalinae, Heliconiinae, Limenitidinae, Cyrestinae and Apaturinae are now applicable to the Singapore checklist. The family Riodinidae, which was earlier placed as a subfamily of Lycaenidae, has also been reinstated to the family level.

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