Eurema

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Eurema

Eurema herla

Eurema herla

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
(unranked)	Rhopalocera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Pieridae
Subfamily:	Coliadinae
Genus:	Eurema Hübner, [1819]

Papilio delia
Cramer, 1780

Eurema is a widespread genus of grass yellow butterflies in the family Pieridae. Species range from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceania, to the New World. The type species is the North American Virginia grass yellow.

There are over 70 species in the genus, but more than 300 names have been applied to them. Some species, such as the common African grass yellow, E. hecuba, have over 80 synonyms. The genus itself has over 15 junior generic synonyms. This is the price of being a widespread taxon, as well as a zoogeographical problem.

[edit] Species list

Eurema Hübner, [1819]

E. ada (Distant & Pryer, 1887)
E. alitha (C. & R. Felder, 1862)
E. andersoni (Moore, 1886)
E. beatrix (Toxopeus, 1939)
E. blanda (Boisduval, 1836)
E. brigitta (Stoll, [1780])
E. candida (Stoll, [1782])
E. celebensis Wallace, 1867
E. desjardinsi (Boisduval, 1833)
E. ?ecriva (Butler, 1873)
E. esakii Shirôzu, 1953
E. floricola (Boisduval, 1883)
E. ?halmaherana Shirôzu & Yata, 1981²
E. hapale (Mabille, 1882)
E. hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758)
E. herla (Macleay, 1826)
E. ?hiurae
E. lacteola (Distant, 1886)
E. laeta (Boisduval, [1836])
E. lombokiana Fruhstorfer, 1897²
E. mandarinula (Holland, 1892)
E. mentawiensis Corbet, 1942²
E. novapallida Yata, 1992
E. ?nilgiriensis Yata, 1990²
E. puella (Boisduval, 1832)
E. regularis (Butler, 1876)
E. sari (Horsfield, [1829])
E. sarilata Semper, 1891²
E. senegalensis Boisduval, [1836]
E. simulatrix (Semper, 1891)
E. smilax (Donovan, 1805)
E. tilaha (Horsfield, [1829])
E. nicevillei (Butler, 1898)
E. timorensis Shirôzu & Yata, 1977
E. tominia (Vollenhoven, 1865)
E. upembana (Berger, 1981)
E. zamida (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
E. adamsi (Lathy, 1898)
E. agave (Cramer, [1775])
E. albula (Cramer, [1776])
E. amelia (Poey, [1832])
E. arbela Geyer, [1832]
E. daira (Godart, [1819]) Type
E. deva (Doubleday, 1847)
E. elathea (Cramer, [1777])
E. fabiola (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
E. lirina (Bates, 1861)
E. lucina (Poey, [1852])
E. mexicana (Boisduval, [1836])
E. nigrocincta Dognin, 1889
E. paulina (Bates, 1861)
E. phiale (Cramer, [1775])
E. reticulata (Butler, 1871)
E. salome (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
E. tupuntenem Lichy, 1976
E. xantochlora (Kollar, 1850)
E. nicippe (Cramer, [1779])
E. nicippiformis Munroe, 1947
E. chamberlaini Butler, 1897
E. dina (Poey, 1832)
E. euterpiformis Munroe, 1947
E. leuce (Boisduval, 1836)
E. lisa (Boisduval & Leconte, 1829)
E. messalina (Fabricius, 1787)
E. nise (Cramer, [1775])
E. portoricensis (Dewitz, 1877)
E. proterpia (Fabricius, 1775)
E. pyro (Godart, 1819)
E. venusta (Boisduval, 1836)
E. zelia (Lucas, 1852)

[edit] See also

Eurema page on Markku Savela's butterfly website

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