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Phoebis marcellina

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Phoebis marcellina
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Phoebis
Species:
P. marcellina
Binomial name
Phoebis marcellina
(Cramer, 1779)

Phoebis marcellina is a species of butterfly found in the Western Hemisphere between roughly the latitudes of 34° N and 30° S (meaning from Los Angeles to northern Argentina, approximately).[1] Previously considered a subspecies of Phoebis sennae,[2] the marcellina sulphur was elevated to full species status in 2020 after "recent pierid DNA barcode studies across the Neotropics" found more species diversity than had been previously recognized.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Marcellina Sulphur (Phoebis marcellina)". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
  2. ^ Cong, Qian; Shen, Jinhui; Warren, Andrew D.; Borek, Dominika; Otwinowski, Zbyszek; Grishin, Nick V. (March 2016). "Speciation in Cloudless Sulphurs Gleaned from Complete Genomes". Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 (3): 915–931. doi:10.1093/gbe/evw045. ISSN 1759-6653. PMC 4894063. PMID 26951782.
  3. ^ Núñez, Rayner; Genaro, Julio A.; Pérez-Asso, Antonio; Murillo-Ramos, Leidys; Janzen, Daniel H.; Hallwachs, Winnie; Wahlberg, Niklas; Hausmann, Axel (April 2020). "Species delimitation and evolutionary relationships among Phoebis New World sulphur butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae, Coliadinae)". Systematic Entomology. 45 (2): 481–492. Bibcode:2020SysEn..45..481N. doi:10.1111/syen.12408. ISSN 0307-6970.