Cepora

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Cepora
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Cepora nerissa
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Tribe: Pierini
Genus: Cepora
Billberg, 1820
Species

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Synonyms
  • HuphinaMoore, [1881]

Cepora is a genus of butterflies, commonly called gulls, in the family Pieridae. The genus contains about 20 species shared between the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.

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Species

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References

  1. Cepora, funet.fi