Eurema

Eurema
Eurema blanda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Euremini
Genus:	Eurema Hübner, [1819]
Type species
Eurema daira Cramer, 1780
Species
c. 70, see text
Synonyms
Abaeis Hübner, [1819] Terias Swainson, [1821] Xanthidia Boisduval & Le Conte, [1829] Lucidia Lacordaire, 1833 Heurema Agassiz, [1847] Pyrisitia Butler, 1870 Sphaenogona Butler, 1870 Maiva Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1893 Kibreeta Moore, [1906] Nirmula Moore, [1906] Teriocolias Röber, [1909]

E. elathea obsoleta - banded yellow, Brazil

E. elathea elathea - false barred sulphur, Grand Cayman

E. brigitta - small grass yellow

E. hecabe - common grass yellow

E. venusta - grass yellow, Brazil

Eurema is a widespread genus of grass yellow butterflies in the family Pieridae.

Species range from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceania, to the New World. The type species is the North American barred yellow (Eurema daira).

There are over 70 species in the genus, but more than 300 synonymous names have been applied to them. Some species, such as the common African grass yellow (E. hecabe) have over 80 synonyms. The genus itself has over 15 junior generic synonyms. This is the price of being a widespread taxon, as well as a zoogeographical problem.

Species[]

Listed alphabetically within groups:^[1]

• Eurema ada (Distant & Pryer, 1887)
• Eurema alitha (C.& R. Felder, 1862) – scalloped grass yellow
• Eurema andersonii (Moore, 1886) – one-spot grass yellow
• (Toxopeus, 1939)
• Eurema blanda (Boisduval, 1836) – three-spot grass yellow
• Eurema brigitta (Stoll, [1780]) – small grass yellow or no brand grass yellow
• (Stoll, [1782])
• Eurema celebensis Wallace, 1867
• Eurema desjardinsii (Boisduval, 1833) – angled grass yellow
• ? (Butler, 1873)
• Shirôzu, 1953
• Eurema floricola (Boisduval, 1883) – Malagasy grass yellow
• ? Shirôzu & Yata, 1981
• Eurema hapale (Mabille, 1882) – pale grass yellow or marsh grass yellow
• Eurema hecabe (Linnaeus, 1758) – common grass yellow
• Eurema herla (Macleay, 1826) – pink grass yellow
• ? Shirozu & Yata, 1977
• Eurema lacteola (Distant, 1886) – scarce grass yellow
• Eurema laeta (Boisduval, [1836]) – spotless grass yellow
• Fruhstorfer, 1897
• Eurema mandarinula (Holland, 1892) – mandarin grass yellow
• Corbet, 1942
• Yata, 1992
• Eurema nilgiriensis Yata, 1990 – Nilgiri grass yellow
• (Boisduval, 1832) – broad-margined grass yellow
• Eurema regularis (Butler, 1876) – regular grass yellow
• Eurema sari (Horsfield, [1829]) – chocolate grass yellow
• Eurema sarilata Semper, 1891
• Eurema senegalensis Boisduval, [1836] – forest grass yellow
• Eurema simulatrix (Semper, 1891) – changeable grass yellow
• Eurema smilax (Donovan, 1805) – small grass yellow
• (Horsfield, [1829])
• Eurema nicevillei (Butler, 1898) – Malayan grass yellow
• Shirôzu & Yata, 1977
• (Vollenhoven, 1865)
• Eurema upembana (Berger, 1981)
• (Fruhstorfer, 1908)

Species group:

• (Lathy, 1898)
• (Cramer, [1775])
• Eurema albula (Cramer, [1776]) – ghost yellow
• (Poey, [1832])
• Geyer, [1832]
• Eurema daira (Godart, [1819]) (type species) – barred yellow, fairy yellow, or barred sulphur
• (Doubleday, 1847)
• (Cramer, [1777])
• (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
• (Bates, 1861)
• (Poey, [1852])
• Eurema mexicana (Boisduval, [1836]) – Mexican yellow
• Dognin, 1889
• (Bates, 1861)
• (Cramer, [1775])
• (Butler, 1871)
• Eurema salome (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Salome yellow
• Lichy, 1976
• (Kollar, 1850) – tropical yellow

Species group abaeis:

• Eurema nicippe (Cramer, [1779])
• Munroe, 1947

Species group pyrisitia:

• Butler, 1897
• Eurema dina (Poey, 1832) – bush sulphur or dina yellow
• Munroe, 1947
• Eurema leuce (Boisduval, 1836) – Hall's sulphur
• Eurema lisa (Boisduval & Leconte, 1829) – little yellow
• Eurema messalina (Fabricius, 1787) – shy yellow
• Eurema nise (Cramer, [1775]) – mimosa yellow
• Eurema portoricensis (Dewitz, 1877) – Puerto Rican yellow
• Eurema proterpia (Fabricius, 1775) – tailed orange or little jaune
• (Godart, 1819)
• (Boisduval, 1836)

Species group teriocolias:

• (Lucas, 1852)

Unknown species group

• (Röber, 1909)
• Eurema irena Corbet & Pendlebury, 1932
• (Watkins, 1925)
• (D'Almeida, 1928)
• (Felder, C & R Felder, 1865)

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• Pteron Images of Eurema, in Japanese but with binomial names.
• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 22