Coliadinae

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Coliadinae
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Mating Dainty Sulfurs (Nathalis iole)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Subfamily:	Coliadinae Swainson, 1827
Tribes
Coliadini Euremini Goniopterygini and see text

File:Common Emigrant (Catopsilia pomona) on Canthium coromandelicum W IMG 9093.jpg

Common Emigrant Catopsilia pomona in Keesara, Rangareddy district, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Coliadinae, the sulfurs, sulphurs, or yellows, are a subfamily of butterflies with about 300 described species.

There are 36 species in North America, where they range from Mexico to northern Canada. Males of most species are different from females, including, (for example, in the genera Colias and Gonepteryx) brilliant UV reflections which the females lack.

Systematics

The Coliadinae can be arranged in the 3 traditional tribes and a basal lineage, with one genus of unclear placement. The taxa—including some selected species—are arranged here in the presumed phylogenetic sequence, from the most ancient lineages to the most modern ones:

Basal lineage

• Kricogonia Reakirt, 1863
• Nathalis Boisduval, [1836]

Euremini

• Terias Swainson, 1821
• Pyrisitia Butler, 1870
• Abaeis Hübner, [1819]
• Eurema Hübner, [1819] – grass yellows
• Leucidia Doubleday, [1847]
• Teriocolias Roeber 1909

Goniopterygini

• Dercas Doubleday, [1847] – sulphurs
• Gonepteryx Leach, [1815] – brimstones

Coliadini

• Catopsilia Hübner, [1819] – emigrants
• Colias Fabricius, 1807 – clouded yellows
• Zerene Hübner, [1819]
  • Zerene eurydice – California Dogface Butterfly
• Anteos Hübner, [1819] – angled-sulphurs
• Aphrissa Butler, 1873
• Phoebis Hübner, [1819]
  • Phoebis sennae – Cloudless Sulphur
  • Phoebis avellaneda – Red-splashed Sulphur
• Prestonia Schaus, 1920
  • Prestonia clarki Schaus, 1920
• Rhabdodryas Godman & Salvin, [1889]
  • Rhabdodryas trite (Linnaeus, 1758)

Incertae sedis

• Gandaca Moore, [1906]
  • Gandaca harina (Horsfield, [1829]) – Tree Yellow

References

• Brower, Andrew V.Z. (2006): Tree of Life Web Project - Coliadinae. Version of 2006-NOW-16. Retrieved 2008-AUG-07.
• Lim, M.L.M. & Li, D. (2005): Extreme ultraviolet sexual dimorphism in jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89(3): 397-406. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00704.x (HTML abstract)