Appias cardena

Appias cardena, the yellow puffin, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.[2]

Appias cardena
In Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven's Essai d'une faune entomologique de l'archipel Indonéerlandais
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Appias
Species:
A. cardena
Binomial name
Appias cardena
(Hewitson, 1861)[1]
Synonyms
  • Pieris cardena Hewitson, 1861
  • Tachyris cardena perakana Fruhstorfer, 1902
  • Pieris hagar Vollenhoven, 1865

Subspecies
  • A. c. cardena (northern Borneo)
  • A. c. perakana (Fruhstorfer, 1902) (Peninsular Malaysia, possibly northern Sumatra)
  • A. c. hagar (Vollenhoven, 1865) (Sumatra)

References
  1. Hewitson, 1861 Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.
  2. Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9
  • Appias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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