Perrhybris pamela

Pamela
Upperside of male
Underside of male
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Perrhybris
Species:	P. pamela
Binomial name
Perrhybris pamela (Stoll, [1870])
Synonyms
Papilio pyrrhaFabricius, 1775 Papilio iphigeniaSchulze, 1776 (preocc. Cramer, 1775) Perrhybris eueidiasHübner, [1819] Mylothris alethinaButler, 1872 Perrhybris ostrolenkaStaudinger, 1884 Pieris alethina Pieris malenkaHewitson, 1852

Perrhybris pamela, the Pamela, ^[1] is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found from Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama, south to Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. This species breeds in lowland rainforest at altitudes between sea level and about 900 metres.

Figures 5 (male) and 6 (female)

The wingspan is 66–70 mm (2.6–2.8 in). It is strongly sexually dichromatic, with the female resembling some species of Heliconiini.

Larvae have been recorded on Capparis isthmensis and Capparis pittieri .

Subspecies

• P. p. pamela (Suriname)
• P. p. eleidias (Brazil (Espírito Santo, São Paulo))
• P. p. malenka (Venezuela)
• P. p. alethina (Costa Rica, Panama)
• P. p. flava
• P. p. bogotana (Colombia)
• P. p. amazonica (Peru)
• P. p. glessaria (Ecuador)
• P. p. carmenta (Peru, Bolivia)
• P. p. incisa (Brazil (Bahia))
• P. p. lucasi (French Guiana)
• P. p. fruhstorferi (Panama)
• P. p. boyi (Brazil (Amazonas))
• P. p. chajulensis (Mexico, Honduras)
• P. p. mapa (Mexico)
• P. p. bertha (Peru)
• P. p. mazuka (Peru)

There is also an undescribed subspecies from Costa Rica.

References

1. Pamela ^[usurped] , Butterflies of Amazonia

External links

• Butterflies of the Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador)