Phoebis

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
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
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. Full article: [1].
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: Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea
Murillo-Ramos, L., Torres, R.H., Aguila, R.N. & 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 Paywall Reference page.

Phoebis, or sulphurs, is a genus of butterflies, belonging to the subfamily Coliadinae of the "whites" or family Pieridae. They are native to the Americas.
Selected species

Phoebis agarithe (Boisduval, [1836]) – large orange sulphur (southern US to Peru)
Phoebis argante (Fabricius, 1775) – apricot sulphur, Argante giant sulphur (Mexico to Peru and Brazil, Caribbean)
Phoebis avellaneda (Herrich-Schäffer, 1865) – red-splashed sulphur (Cuba)
Phoebis bourkei (Dixey, 1933) – (Ecuador)
Phoebis editha (Butler, 1870) – Edith's sulphur (Haiti)
Phoebis neocypris (Hübner, [1823]) – tailed sulphur (Mexico to Peru, Brazil)
Phoebis philea (Linnaeus, 1763) – orange-barred sulphur, yellow apricot (Mexico to Peru, Brazil, Cuba, Hispaniola)
Phoebis sennae (Linnaeus, 1758) – cloudless

sulphur, common yellow (southern North America to South America)

Moved:

Phoebis orbis moved to Aphrissa orbis (Poey, 1832) – orbed sulphur

References

Phoebis, funet.fi