''Appias'', commonly called puffins or albatrosses, is a genus of

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the subfamily

Pierinae The Pierinae are a large subfamily of pierid butterflies. The subfamily is one of several clades of butterflies often referred to as the whites. Species It includes the following species (additional species can be found under the tribes list ...

(whites) found in Africa and southern Asia.

Species

Listed alphabetically: *'' Appias ada'' (Stoll,

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– rare albatross *'' Appias aegis'' (Felder, C & R Felder, 1861) – forest white *'' Appias albina'' (Boisduval, 1836) – common albatross or white albatross *'' Appias aroa'' (Ribbe, 1900) *'' Appias athama'' (Blanchard, 1848) *'' Appias caeca'' Corbet, 1941 *'' Appias cardena'' (Hewitson,

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*'' Appias celestina'' (Boisduval, 1832) – common migrant *'' Appias clementina'' (Felder, C, 1860) *'' Appias dolorosa'' Fruhstorfer, 1910 *''

Appias drusilla ''Appias drusilla'', the Florida white or tropical white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in tropical America from Brazil north to southern peninsular Florida and the Florida Keys and Antilles. It frequently visits coastal Tex ...

'' (Cramer,

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– Florida white or tropical white *'' Appias epaphia'' (Cramer,

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– diverse albatross or African albatross *'' Appias galene'' (Felder, C & R Felder, 1865) *?'' Appias hero'' (Fabricius, 1793) *'' Appias hombroni'' (Lucas, 1852) *'' Appias inanis'' van Eecke, 1913 *'' Appias indra'' (Moore, 1857) – plain puffin *'' Appias ithome'' (C. & R. Felder, 1859) *''

Appias lalage ''Appias lalage'', the spot puffin, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India, Indochina and Hainan. Description See also *List of butterflies of India (Pieridae) This is a list of ...

'' (Doubleday, 1842) – spot puffin *'' Appias lalassis'' Grose-Smith, 1887 *'' Appias lasti'' (Grose-Smith, 1889) – Last's albatross *'' Appias leis'' (Geyer,

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*'' Appias libythea'' (Fabricius, 1775) – striped albatross *'' Appias lyncida'' (Cramer,

– chocolate albatross *'' Appias maria'' (Semper, 1875) *'' Appias mata'' Kheil, 1884 *'' Appias melania'' (Fabricius, 1775) – grey albatross *'' Appias nephele'' Hewitson,

/small> *'' Appias nero'' (Fabricius, 1793) – orange albatross *'' Appias nupta'' (Fruhstorfer, 1897) *'' Appias olferna'' Swinhoe, 1890 – eastern striped albatross *'' Appias panda'' Fruhstorfer, 1903 – Nicobar albatross *'' Appias pandione'' (Geyer,

*'' Appias paulina'' (Cramer,

– Ceylon lesser albatross or white albatrossWhite Albatross
Learn about Butterflies *'' Appias perlucens'' (Butler, 1898) *'' Appias phaola'' (Doubleday, 1847) – dirty albatross or Congo white *''

Appias phoebe ''Appias phoebe'' is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found on the Philippines (including Palawan and Luzon). A new subspecies was discovered in 2020. Subspecies *''Appias phoebe mindana'' Yamamoto & Takei, 1980 (Mindanao) *''Appias pho ...

'' (C. & R. Felder, 1861) Appias phoebe MHNT

*'' Appias placidia'' (Stoll,

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*'' Appias punctifera'' d'Almeida, 1939 *'' Appias remedios'' Schröder & Treadaway, 1990 *'' Appias sabina'' (C. & R. Felder,

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– Sabine albatross or albatross white *'' Appias sylvia'' (Fabricius, 1775) – woodland white or common albatross *'' Appias waltraudae'' Schröder, 1977 *'' Appias wardii'' (Moore, 1884) – lesser albatross *'' Appias zarinda'' (Boisduval, 1836) – eastern orange albatross

References

External links

Images representing ''Appias''
at EOL Pieridae genera Taxa named by Jacob Hübner Pierini {{Pieridae-stub