Appias cardena

Yellow puffin
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Appias
Species:	A. cardena
Binomial name
	Appias cardena; (Hewitson, 1861)
Synonyms
	Pieris cardena Hewitson, 1861; Tachyris cardena perakana Fruhstorfer, 1902; Pieris hagar Vollenhoven, 1865;

Appias cardena, the yellow puffin, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.^[2]

Subspecies

A. c. cardena (northern Borneo)
A. c. perakana (Fruhstorfer, 1902) (Peninsular Malaysia, possibly northern Sumatra)
A. c. hagar (Vollenhoven, 1865) (Sumatra)

^ Hewitson, 1861 Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.
^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde 9

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