Open AccessEurema brigitta (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) – a new record of butterfly for Socotra
Author(s) -
Zdeněk Faltýnek Fric,
Michal Rindoš,
Vladimír Hula
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
acta entomologica musei nationalis pragae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.511
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1804-6487
pISSN - 0374-1036
DOI - 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0119
Subject(s) - pieridae , lepidoptera genitalia , butterfly , subspecies , biology , ecology
Eurema brigitta (Stoll, 1780) (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) is recorded for the first time from the Socotra Island (Yemen). The specimen represents either a wet season form of a subspecies originating from Africa or a form with its usual occurrence in Madagascar, Mascarenes, Aldabra and Comoros. The current number of butterfly species known for Socotra is now 27.
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