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Field Notes

Description:

yellow-green butterfly, looks a lot like a senescent leaf of Passiflora subpeltata

Habitat:

on Passiflora subpeltata leaf, xerophytic shrubland in Mexico City, University campus El Pedregal de San Ángel, on a lava field 2500 years old

Species ID Suggestions

Cloudless Sulphur

Phoebis sennae marcellina

Reference Link
bayucca
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Comments (6)
bayucca
Similar but another genus. Clouded Sulphur is a Colidae and would look like this: http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Colias-philodice
shekainah d. alaban
Those two brown ringed spot identifies it as a clouded sulphur. We have this butterfly in our region.
bayucca
Folks, you are on the wrong side of the globe ;-)... This is a neotropical Pieridae, Phoebis sennae marcellina. Grass Yellow and Emigrant are Asian/Australian species.

Spotted for Missions

Mission
WILD Cities: Urban Biodiversity
Mission
Mexico Horn of Plenty
Photographed
PublishedOctober 5, 2012

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