Eurema ada

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Eurema ada
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Eurema
Species: E. ada
Binomial name
Eurema ada
(Distant & Pryor), 1887
Synonyms
  • Terias ada

Eurema ada, (originally described as Terias ada), is a species of butterfly in the genus Eurema. It was discovered in northern Borneo and described in 1871. Its main distinctive features are that its ground-color is pale sulphurous, not white, and the border margins on its wings are blacker and wider. Wing-span is 35 mm. [1]

Known subspecies[2]

  • Eurema ada choui (Gu, 1994)
  • Eurema ada indosinica (Yata, 1991)
  • Eurema ada iona (Talbot, 1939)
  • Eurema ada prabha (Fruhstorfer)
  • Eurema ada toba (de Nicéville)
  • Eurema ada varga (Fruhstorfer)
  • Eurema ada yaksha (Fruhstorfer)

References


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