Biology:Eurema celebensis

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Short description: Species of butterfly

Eurema celebensis
Eurema celebensis 58865565.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Eurema
Species:
E. celebensis
Binomial name
Eurema celebensis
(Wallace, 1867)
Synonyms
  • Terias celebensis Wallace, 1867

Eurema celebensis is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae.[1] It is found in the Sula Islands Regency, Indonesia, on the islands of Sulawesi and Sula. It was first described by Alfred Russel Wallace and named Terias celebensis.[2]

Description

Eurema celebensis 58853252 (cropped).jpg

Wallace originally described the species as follows:

Male. — Above, black, with a suborbicular yellow patch extending from near the costa of the upper wings to just below the cell of the lower wings, twice sinuated towards the apex of the uppers, elsewhere regularly curved. Beneath, yellow, with spots arranged as in T. tominia. Female. — Dusky black, with a small subovate yellow patch across the end of the cell of the upper wings. The lower wings with the inner margin yellow, extending in an ovate patch between the cell and the outer angle.[2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q2345041 entry