Catopsilia | |
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Common emigrant, Jaipur, India | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Tribe: | Coliadini |
Genus: | Catopsilia Hübner, [1819] |
Species | |
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Synonyms | |
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Catopsilia is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae, commonly called migrants or emigrants.
Ordered alphabetically. [1]
Catopsilia scylla, the orange migrant or orange emigrant, is a species of butterfly that lives in South East Asia and Australasia. Its larvae feed predominantly on plants of the genera Cassia and Senna.