Appias cardena
Appearance
Yellow puffin | |
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In Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven's Essai d'une faune entomologique de l'archipel Indonéerlandais | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Appias |
Species: | A. cardena
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Binomial name | |
Appias cardena | |
Synonyms | |
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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]
Subspecies
- A. c. cardena (northern Borneo)
- A. c. perakana (Fruhstorfer, 1902) (Peninsular Malaysia, possibly northern Sumatra)
- A. c. hagar (Vollenhoven, 1865) (Sumatra)
References
External links
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Wikispecies has information related to Appias cardena.
- Appias at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms