Taxa described in 1807

Colias is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. They are often called clouded yellows in the Palearctic and sulphurs (a name also used for other coliadine genera) in North America. The closest living relative is the genus Zerene, which is sometimes included in Colias.

genus of insects

Apatura is a genus of butterflies commonly known as the emperors.

genus of insects

Pontia is a genus of pierid butterflies. They are found in the Holarctic, but are rare in Europe and central to eastern North America, and a few species range into the Afrotropics. Several East Asian species once placed here are now more often split off in Sinopieris. Like the closely related genus Pieris, they are commonly called whites.

genus of insects

Nymphidium is a genus in the butterfly family Riodinidae present only in the Neotropical realm.

genus of insects

Poitea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. It includes 15 species of trees and shrubs native to the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Dominica. Typical habitats include seasonally-dry tropical lowland to montane forest, thicket, and thorn scrub, often in secondary vegetation and on steep slopes or roadsides. It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.

Hoplitis is a genus of bees in the family Megachilidae. There are more than 380 described species in Hoplitis. thumb

Helias is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.

Salpianthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Nyctaginaceae. Its native range is Mexico to Venezuela and Ecuador, Cuba.

Lethedon is a genus of shrubs in the Thymelaeaceae family native to Queensland, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu. It is related to Arnhemia, Deltaria, Gonystylus and Solmsia.