''Dercas'' 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 family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...

found in southeast Asia.

Species

Listed alphabetically:''Dercas''
funet.fi *'' Dercas enara'' Swinhoe, 1899 *'' Dercas gobrias'' Hewitson, 1864 *''

Dercas lycorias ''Dercas lycorias'', the "plain sulphur", is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae (colloquially the "yellows and whites"), which is found in India. See also *List of butterflies of India (Pieridae) This is a list of the pierid butterflies o ...

'' (Doubleday, 1842) – plain sulphur *'' Dercas nina'' Mell, 1913 *''

Dercas verhuelli ''Dercas verhuelli'', the tailed sulphur, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and whites, which is found in India, Burma, China and Indochina. See also *List of butterflies of India (Pieridae) This is a list of th ...

'' (Hoeven, 1839) – tailed sulphur

References

Coliadinae Pieridae genera {{pieridae-stub