Eurema nicippe

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Pieridae

'The Pieridae are members of the Superfamily Papilionoidea, the true butterflies. Worldwide in distribution, most species are found in the tropics. Adults have medium to small wings that are white, yellow, or orange, with some black or red, and many have hidden ultraviolet patterns that are used in courtship . Species with more than one generation usually have distinct seasonal variation in appearance . Adults of all species visit flowers for nectar, and adults of both sexes have three pairs of walking legs . Males patrol in search of receptive mates, and females lay columnar eggs on leaves, buds, and stems. The majority of caterpillars of North American whites and sulphurs feed on legumes or crucifers (members of the Mustard family ). Typically, temperate species overwinter in the pupal or larval stage , while tropical species overwinter as adults.

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Physical Description

Biology

Behavior

Flies close to the ground .

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Provisionally Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Beccaloni G.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eurema

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species and subspecies in this genus:

E. albula (Ghost Yellow) · E. andersoni (One-Spot Yellow Grass) · E. boisduvaliana (Boisduval's Yellow) · E. brigitta (Small Grass Yellow) · E. daira (Barred Yellow) · E. dina (Dina Yellow) · E. lisa (Little Sulphur) · E. lisae (Little Yellow) · E. mexicana (Mexican Yellow) · E. nicippe (Sleepy Orange) · E. nise (Mimosa Yellow) · E. proterpia (Tailed Orange) · E. salome (Salome Yellow)

More Info

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Further Reading

• ...Butterflies worth knowing, by Clarence M. Weed... illustrated by forty-eight plates, thirty-two in color. 1917 Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company[c1917] url p. 105, p. 110, p. 284.
• An introduction to entomology, by John Henry Comstock. Ithaca, New York, The Comstock publishing co., inc., 1933. url p. 1022, p. 749.
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 30.
• Annotated checklist of the butterflies of Illinois [by] Roderick R. Irwin [and] John C. Downey. Urbana, Illinois Natural History Survey, 1973. url p. 18.
• Bibliography (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) / Charles A. Bridges. Urbana, Ill.: C.A. Bridges, c1993. url p. 332, p. 346, p. 454.
• Brief guide to the commoner butterflies of the northern United States and Canada being an introduction to a knowledge of their life histories / by Samuel Hubbard Scudder. New York: H. Holt, 1893. url .
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 148, p. 149, p. 21, p. 23, p. 26.
• Bulletin / U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. Washington: G.P.O., 1883-1904. url p. 73.
• Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. Brooklyn, N.Y.: The Society, url p. 26.
• Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History. Bloomington, Ill.: The Laboratory, 1876-1918. url p. 88.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 78 1935 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 127.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url , , p. 178, p. 44, p. 51, p. 52.
• Butterflies worth knowing / by Clarence M. Weed; illustrated by forty-eight plates, thirty-two in color. [Garden City, N.Y.]Pub. by Doubleday, Page & Company for Nelson Doubleday, 1923 [c1917] url p. 105, p. 110.
• Catalogue of Papilionidae & Pieridae (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) / Charles A. Bridges. Urbana, Ill: C.A. Bridges, 1988. url p. 70.
• Entomological contributions in memory of Byron A. Alexander / edited by George W. Byers, Robert H. Hagen and Robert W. Brooks. Lawrence, Kan.: Natural History Museum, the University of Kansas, 1999. url p. 75.
• Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia[Entomological Rooms of the Academy of Natural Sciences] url p. 323, p. 330, p. 330, p. 347, p. 347, p. 348, p. 348, p. 88.
• Entomological news. [Philadelphia]American Entomological Society, 1925- url p. 107, p. 120, p. 146, p. 181, p. 191, p. 200, p. 38, p. 71, p. 86, p. 88, p. 88, p. 90.
• Guide to California insects. Berkeley, The Law press, 1913. url p. 20, p. 24.
• How to know the butterflies; a manual of the butterflies of the eastern United States, New York, D. Appleton, 1904. url .
• Illinois biological monographs. Urbana, Univ. of Illinois Press. url p. 138.
• Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science. Lexington, KY: The Academy, 1998- url p. 180, p. 180, p. 87, p. 87.
• Journal of the New York Entomological Society. Lawrence, Kan.: Allen Press [etc.] url p. 157, p. 160, p. 237, p. 42.
• Memoir / Ithaca, N.Y. url p. 17.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1965 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 55.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 115.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 293.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 81, p. 82, p. 84.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 531, p. 572.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 116 1952 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 115.
• The Canadian entomologist. Ottawa [etc.]Entomological Society of Canada [etc.] url p. 137, p. 137.
• The Entomologist's record and journal of variation. s.l., s.n. url p. 120, p. 176, p. 178, p. 244, p. 7.
• The Lepidopteras of New York and neighboring states, primitive forms Microlepidoptera, Pyraloids, Bombyces. Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell Univ., 1920. url p. 17.
• The Lepidopterists' news: the monthly newsletter of the Lepidopterists' Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Lepidopterists' Society, 1947-1958. url p. 102, p. 17, p. 51, p. 86, p. 86, p. 90, p. 97.
• The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada: with special reference to New England / By Samuel Hubbard Scudder. Cambridge: The author, 1889. url p. 1066.
• The classification of lepidopterous larvae, with ten plates, by Stanley Black Fracker. Urbana, University of Illinois, c1915 url p. 138, p. 138.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 6 1930 [San Diego]: The Society, 1905-1989. url p. 11.
• Tulane studies in zoology. 6 1958 New Orleans: Tulane University, 1953-1968. url p. 103, p. 109, p. 71, p. 92.
• Zoology of Colorado, by Theodore D.A. Cockerell. .. Boulder, Col., University of Colorado, 1927. url p. 217.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 26, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index
• NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
• The Global Lepidoptera Names Index2, 12.2, 2005.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 26, 2008:

• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Alan Wormington Collection
• Illinois Natural History Survey

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2603231
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lep-177908.0
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 14889

Footnotes

1. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=15&sci=Pieridae&com=Whites and Sulphurs [back]

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