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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows (Pieridae) » Sulphurs and Yellows (Coliadinae) » Aphrissa » Statira Sulphur - Hodges#4233 (Aphrissa statira)
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Statira Sulphur - Aphrissa statira - female
Copyright © 2004 Alan Chin Lee

Statira Sulphur - Aphrissa statira - Female
Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, USA
This close look-alike to the Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae), Aphrissa statira males have two shades of yellow on the dorsal side which help to distinguish it from its close relative. They however use a very different host plant known as Coinvine. Its larva lacks the bluish lateral line of the Cloudless Sulphur.

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Contributed by Alan Chin Lee on 19 August, 2004 - 10:17pm
Last updated 20 November, 2011 - 3:50pm

Nice Find
And you found it when it emerged from the pupae and expanded it's wings! That must've bee amazing to find!
… Brittanie McCormack, 29 June, 2006 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

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