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Introduction:Pieridae are the sulphurs and whites, medium-sized mostly pale-colored butterflies with a world-wide distribution. There are some 1100 species.
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Pieris rapae Trusted
Stavros Markopoulos
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Pieris rapae Trusted
Valter Jacinto
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Pieridae Trusted
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Found in 6 classifications
See all 6 approved classifications in which this taxon appears.Family recognized by Paleobiology Database:
- Metazoa Haeckel 1874 +
- Eumetazoa Butchili 1910 +
- Triploblastica Lankester 1877 +
- Nephrozoa Jondelius et al. 2002 +
- Protostomia Grobben, 1908 +
- Ecdysozoa +
- Panarthropoda +
- Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 +
- Hexapoda Latreille, 1825 +
- Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 +
- Dicondylia +
- Pterygota Brauer 1885 +
- Neoptera +
- Endoneoptera +
- Mecopterida +
- Endoneoptera +
- Neoptera +
- Pterygota Brauer 1885 +
- Dicondylia +
- Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 +
- Hexapoda Latreille, 1825 +
- Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 +
- Panarthropoda +
- Ecdysozoa +
- Protostomia Grobben, 1908 +
- Nephrozoa Jondelius et al. 2002 +
- Triploblastica Lankester 1877 +
- Eumetazoa Butchili 1910 +
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Katja Schulz selected "Colias croceus" to show in Overview on "Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785)".
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Jennifer Hammock marked "Broad-bordered Grass Yellow Eurema brigitta" as trusted on the "Eurema brigitta" page.
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