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Euchloe
Sign in to saveEuchloe is a genus of pierid butterflies from the orangetip tribe (Anthocharini). They are Holarctic in distribution, with most species in Europe, Central Asia, and North America. Like other Anthocharini, the American species are usually called marbles; the Old World species are known as dappled whites.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyPieridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 196
- With media
- 20
- Family
- Pieridae
- Collections
- UMNH, UAM
- Recorded in
- Spain, United States, Canada
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Anthocharini
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- (MHNT) Euchloe crameri - Préserville France - female ventral.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Euchloe
- taxon name
- Euchloe
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Marbles
- taxonomic type
- Euchloe ausonia
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Euchloe is a genus of pierid butterflies from the orangetip tribe (Anthocharini). They are Holarctic in distribution, with most species in Europe, Central Asia, and North America. Like other Anthocharini, the American species are usually called marbles; the Old World species are known as dappled whites.
==Classification== Listed alphabetically within groups: Subgenus Euchloe Hübner, 1819: Euchloe ausonia (Hübner, [1803-1804]) – eastern dappled white Euchloe ausonides (Lucas, 1852) – large marble or creamy marblewing Euchloe belemia (Esper, 1800) – green-striped white Euchloe crameri Butler, 1869 – western dappled white Euchloe creusa (Doubleday, [1847]) – northern marble Euchloe daphalis (Moore, 1865) - Asian Dappled White Euchloe falloui (Allard, 1867) - Desert Green-striped White Euchloe insularis (Staudinger, 1861) Euchloe melanochlorus, Rober, 1907 - Egyptian Dappled White Euchloe naina Kozhanchikov, 1923 Euchloe ogilvia Back, 1990 Euchloe orientalis (Bremer, 1864) Euchloe pulverata (Christoph, 1884) Euchloe simplonia (Bloisduval, 1828) – mountain dappled white Euchloe tagis (Hübner, [1803-1804]) – Portuguese dappled white
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