Eurema

Eurema is a widespread genus of grass yellow butterflies in the family Pieridae.

Eurema
Eurema blanda
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Tribe: Euremini
Genus: Eurema
Hübner, [1819]
Type species
Eurema daira
Cramer, 1780
Species

c.70, see text

Synonyms
  • Abaeis Hübner, [1819]
  • Terias Swainson, [1821]
  • Xanthidia Boisduval & Le Conte, [1829]
  • Lucidia Lacordaire, 1833
  • Heurema Agassiz, [1847]
  • Pyrisitia Butler, 1870
  • Sphaenogona Butler, 1870
  • Maiva Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1893
  • Kibreeta Moore, [1906]
  • Nirmula Moore, [1906]
  • Teriocolias Röber, [1909]
E. xantochlora xantochlora - tropical yellow, Colombia
E. elathea elathea - false barred sulphur, Grand Cayman
E. brigitta - small grass yellow
E. hecabe - common grass yellow
E. venusta - grass yellow, Brazil

Species range from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceania, to the New World. The type species is the North American barred yellow (Eurema daira).

There are over 70 species in the genus, but more than 300 synonymous names have been applied to them. Some species, such as the common African grass yellow (E. hecabe) 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.

Species

Listed alphabetically within groups:[1]

Species group:

  • Eurema adamsi (Lathy, 1898)
  • Eurema agave (Cramer, [1775])
  • Eurema albula (Cramer, [1776]) – ghost yellow
  • Eurema amelia (Poey, [1832])
  • Eurema arbela Geyer, [1832]
  • Eurema daira (Godart, [1819]) (type species) – barred yellow, fairy yellow, or barred sulphur
  • Eurema deva (Doubleday, 1847)
  • Eurema elathea (Cramer, [1777])
  • Eurema fabiola (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
  • Eurema lirina (Bates, 1861)
  • Eurema lucina (Poey, [1852])
  • Eurema mexicana (Boisduval, [1836]) – Mexican yellow
  • Eurema nigrocincta Dognin, 1889
  • Eurema paulina (Bates, 1861)
  • Eurema phiale (Cramer, [1775])
  • Eurema reticulata (Butler, 1871)
  • Eurema salome (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Salome yellow
  • Eurema tupuntenem Lichy, 1976
  • Eurema xantochlora (Kollar, 1850) – tropical yellow

Species group abaeis:

Species group pyrisitia:

  • Eurema chamberlaini Butler, 1897
  • Eurema dina (Poey, 1832) – bush sulphur or dina yellow
  • Eurema euterpiformis Munroe, 1947
  • Eurema leuce (Boisduval, 1836) – Hall's sulphur
  • Eurema lisa (Boisduval & Leconte, 1829) – little yellow
  • Eurema messalina (Fabricius, 1787) – shy yellow
  • Eurema nise (Cramer, [1775]) – mimosa yellow
  • Eurema portoricensis (Dewitz, 1877) – Puerto Rican yellow
  • Eurema proterpia (Fabricius, 1775) – tailed orange or little jaune
  • Eurema pyro (Godart, 1819)
  • Eurema venusta (Boisduval, 1836)

Species group teriocolias:

  • Eurema zelia (Lucas, 1852)

Unknown species group

  • Eurema doris (Röber, 1909)
  • Eurema irena Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932
  • Eurema ormistoni (Watkins, 1925)
  • Eurema raymundoi (D'Almeida, 1928)
  • Eurema tondana (Felder, C & R Felder, 1865)

References

  1. Eurema, page on Markku Savela's butterfly website
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