Appias sylvia sylvia ( Fabricius, 1775 )

Bivar-De-Sousa, António, Vasconcelos, Sasha, Mendes, Luís F., Larsen, Torben B., Baker, Jon & Guilherme, João L., 2016, Butterflies of Guinea-Bissau: VIII. New data, new reports, corrections and biodiversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea), Zootaxa 4201 (1), pp. 1-77 : 16

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4201.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6067971

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A50287F3-FFE2-FFEC-FF0E-FF58FC6EFDB1

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scientific name

Appias sylvia sylvia ( Fabricius, 1775 )
status

 

29. Appias sylvia sylvia ( Fabricius, 1775)

WL: 27mm. The species occurs in all types of forest and is occasionally quite common. It ranges from Senegal to Cameroon and northern DRC. Caterpillars feed on Drypetes and Phyllanthus (Euphorbiaceae) and on Ritchiea (Capparaceae).

Studied material. Cacheu: Caió (JB) 1♀ . Quinara: Buba Tombo ( PNLC), 17.07.2009, 1♂ (BS 29337) . Tombali: Mato de Lautchande ( PNFC), 0 9.07.2009, 2♂ (BS 29276, 29338).

Previous references. Regions: Quinara. Authors: Mendes & Bivar-de-Sousa (2006), Bivar-de-Sousa et al. (2007).

Probable abundance and proposed status. AB: NF; CS: LC.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Pieridae

Genus

Appias

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