Phoebis marcellina

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]

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

References

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.