Appias cardena

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Yellow puffin
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In Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven's Essai d'une faune entomologique de l'archipel Indonéerlandais
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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 cardenaHewitson, 1861
  • Tachyris cardena perakanaFruhstorfer, 1902
  • Pieris hagarVollenhoven, 1865

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]

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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