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Phrissura
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Phrissura

Phrissura is a butterfly taxon in the family Pieridae. It has often been treated as a monotypic genus containing the single species Phrissura aegis. Other taxonomic treatments place Phrissura as a subgenus of Appias, listing the species as Appias (Phrissura) aegis or Appias aegis.

The following subspecies are recognized:

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2 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Forest White

speciesPhrissura cynis

Phrissura aegis

speciesPhrissura aegis

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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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 889358.