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Pieridae 77a0401 – 4240.1   Pyrisitia westwoodii (Boisduval, 1836)

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Distribution: Arizona. Similar Species: Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.) Synonymy: westwoodii (Boisduval, 1836) (Terias)   Type locality: “Mexique”. calceolaria (Butler & Druce, 1872) (Terias) REV. SYN. Taxonomic Notes: Pyrisitia westwoodii (Boisduval, 1836), formerly a subspecies of 4240 Pyrisitia dina (Poey, 1832), is raised to full species status in Zhang et. al. (2021), Tax. Rep. Int. Lepid. Surv., 9(3):7.

References

Species Page at the Butterflies of America Zhang, J., Q. Cong, J. Shen, P.A. Opler, N.V. Grishin, 2021. Genomics-guided refinement of butterfly taxonomy. Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey, 9(3): 1-55.

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