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Eurema drona

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Eurema drona, the small grass yellow or no-brand grass-yellow, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in Oriental and Australian realms.[1][2]

Phylum:Arthropoda
Clade:Pancrustacea
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Quick facts Small grass yellow, Scientific classification ...
Small grass yellow
Imago (above) and final instars (below)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Eurema
Species:
E. drona
Binomial name
Eurema drona
(Horsfield, 1829)
Synonyms

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Upper side of male imago (above), showing the dark borders, and the pupa (below)

Taxonomic revision

In 2022, the species Eurema brigitta was split through phylogeographic pattern of by comparing Afrotropical, Malagasy and Oriental-Australian populations using the mitochondrial cytochromec oxidase subunit I marker. After the taxonomic revision, Afrotropical and Oriental-Australian populations were separated by the Indian Ocean and dry habitats on the northern coasts. Therefore now the Oriental-Australian populations into a separate species, Eurema drona.[3]

Description

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

Ground colour of wings are fringe salmon pink. The valva is longer than that of E. brigitta.

Synonyms

  • Terias drona Horsfield, 1829
  • Terias lerna C. & R. Felder, 1860
  • Terias senna C. & R. Felder, 1865
  • Terias zoraide C. & R. Felder, 1865
  • Terias australis Wallace, 1867
  • Terias rubella Wallace, 1867
  • Terias hainana Moore, 1878
  • Kibreeta fruhslorferi Moore, 1906
  • Nirmula sikkima Moore, 1906
  • Terias libythea drona Horsfield; Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Terias libythea drona f. herlina Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Terias libythea f. rubella Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Terias laeta hainana Moore; Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Terias libythea fruhstorferi Moore; Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Terias libythea senna C. & R. Felder; Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Terias libythea zoraide C. & R. Felder; Fruhstorfer, 1910
  • Eurema libythea f. formosana Matsumura, 1919
  • Eurema dorothea Nakahara, 1922Terias dionysia Hulstaert, 1923
  • Eurema libythea dionysia (Hulstaert); Corbet & Pendlebury,1932
  • Eurema libythea drona (Horsfield); Corbet & Pendlebury,1932
  • Eurema libythea fruhstorferi (Moore); Corbet & Pendlebury,1932
  • Eurema libythea hainana (Moore); Corbet & Pendlebury,1932
  • Eurema libythea lerna (C. & R. Felder); Corbet & Pendlebury,1932
  • Eurema libythea senna (C. & R. Felder); Corbet & Pendlebury,1932
  • Eurema libythea zoraide (C. & R. Felder); Corbet &Pendlebury, 1932
  • Terias hecabe angusta Kishida, 1933
  • Terias hecabe nebulosa Kishida, 1933
  • Eurema brigitta drona (Horsfield); Roepke, 1935
  • Terias brigitta drona Horsfield; Talbot, 1939
  • Terias brigitta rubella Wallace; Talbot, 1939
  • Terias brigitta hainana Moore; Talbot, 1939
  • Terias brigitta fruhstorferi Moore; Talbot, 1939
  • Terias brigitta lerna C. & R. Felder; Talbot, 1939
  • Terias brigitta senna C. & R. Felder; Talbot, 1939
  • Terias brigitta zoraide C. & R. Felder; Talbot, 1939
  • Maiva yunnana, Mell, 1943
  • Eurema brigitta formosana Matsumura; Shirôzu, 1953
  • Eurema brigitta rubella (Wallace); Shirôzu, 1955
  • Eurema brigitta ina Eliot, 1956
  • Eurema brigitta senna (C. & R. Felder); Corbet & Pendlebury,1956
  • Eurema brigitta dionysia (Hulstaert); Shirôzu, 1960
  • Eurema brigitta hinana (Moore); Shirôzu, 1960
  • Eurema brigitta fruhstorferi (Moore); Shirôzu, 1960
  • Eurema brigitta lerna (C. & R. Felder); Shirôzu, 1960
  • Eurema brigitta zoraide (C. & R. Felder); Shirôzu, 1960
  • Eurema brigitta australis (Wallace); Common & Waterhouse,1972
  • Eurema hecabe angusta (Kishida); Yata, 1981
  • Eurema brigitta papuana Shirôzu & Yata, 1981
  • Eurema brigitta sincera Shirôzu & Yata, 1982

Food plants

The larvae feed on Hypericum aethiopicum and Chamaecrista mimosoides.

Subspecies

  • E. d. pulchella (Boisduval, 1833) – Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoro Islands, Aldabra Islands
  • E. d. drona (Horsfield, [1829]) – Sumatra, Java to Lombok
  • E. d. senna (C.&R.Felder, [1865]) – Peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Indochina
  • E. d. fruhstorferi (Moore, 1906) – eastern Indo-China
  • E. d. ina Eliot, 1956 – southern Sulawesi
  • E. d. hainana (Moore, 1878) – Hainan
  • E. d. rubella (Wallace, 1867) – Sri Lanka, India, Burma to southern China, Nicobars
  • E. d. formosana Matsumura, 1919 – Taiwan
  • E. d. yunnana (Mell)
  • E. d. australis (Wallace, 1867) – Australia, New Guinea, Papua New Guinea

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