Sonoran Marble

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Sonoran Marble
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Pierinae
Tribe: Anthocharini
Genus: Euchloe
Species: E. guaymensis
Binomial name
Euchloe guaymensis
(Opler, 1986)

The Sonoran Marble (Euchloe guaymasensis) is a fairly recently discovered species that was found on a microwave tower in the Mexican state of Sonora in 1986. Very little is known yet about its range, habitat preferences or where it fits in to the Euchloes genetically.