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Yellow Albatross
Appias paulina
Appias paulina, known variously as the yellow albatross, lesser albatross, common albatross or Christmas Island white, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found from India to Samoa, including Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Thailand and Australia.
The wingspan is about 50 mm.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 244196.