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Eurema Hübner 1819

the Grass Yellows

Andrew V. Z. Brower

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Eurema adamsi
Eurema agave
Eurema albula
Eurema amelia
Eurema arbela
Eurema brigitta
Eurema daira
Eurema desjardinsii
Eurema deva
Eurema elathea
Eurema fabiola
Eurema herla
Eurema laeta
Eurema lirina
Eurema lucina
Eurema mexicana
Eurema nigrocincta
Eurema paulina
Eurema phiale
Eurema reticulata
Eurema salome
Eurema tupuntenem
Eurema xanthochlora

Containing group: Coliadinae

Introduction

The genus has a circumtropical distribution with the bulk of species in South and Central America. Parsons (1999) states that Yata (1989) included four non-neotropical species in Eurema - E. brigitta, E. desjardinsii, E. herla, and E. laeta. The remainder of Old World "Eurema" s. l. belong in Terias.

Other Names for Eurema Hübner 1819

Lucidia Lacordaire 1833 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym
Heurema Agassiz 1846 unjustified emendation
Sphaenogona Butler 1870 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym
Maiva Grose-Smith & Kirby 1893 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym
Kibreeta Moore 1906 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym
Nirmula Moore 1906 currently viewed as a subjective junior synonym
Vernacular Names: the Grass Yellows

References

Lamas G ed. 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea - Papiionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.

Parsons M. 1999. The butterflies of Papua New Guinea: their systematics and biology. Academic Press, San Diego.

Yata O. 1989. A revision of the Old World species of the genus Eurema Hübner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Part I. Phylogeny and zoogeography of the subgenus Terias Swainson and description of the subgenus Eurema Hübner. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. 9: 1-103, 24 plates, 33 figs.

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Scientific Name	Eurema mexicana
Location	NABA Butterfly Park, Mission, Texas, USA
Specimen Condition	Live Specimen
Source	DSX_00089a
Source Collection	Flickr
Image Use	This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License - Version 2.0.
Copyright	© 2008 Jerry Oldenettel

Scientific Name	Eurema albula
Location	Xilitla, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Acknowledgements	source: Neotropical Butterflies: Ghost Yellow
Specimen Condition	Live Specimen
Source Collection	Neotropical Butterflies
Copyright	© 2003 Kim Garwood

Scientific Name	Eurema xanthochlora
Location	Selva Negra, Nicaragua
Acknowledgements	source: Neotropical Butterflies: Scarce Yellow
Specimen Condition	Live Specimen
Source Collection	Neotropical Butterflies
Copyright	© 2003 Kim Garwood

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First online 06 October 2006
Content changed 16 November 2006

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