Eurema ada
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Eurema ada, is a species of butterfly in the genus Eurema
. It was discovered in northern Borneo
and described in 1871. Its main distinctive features are that it's ground-color is pale sulphurous, not white, and the border margins on its wings are blacker and wider. Wing-span is 35mm.
Eurema
Eurema is a widespread genus of grass yellow butterflies in the family Pieridae.Species range from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceania, to the New World. The type species is the North American Barred Yellow ....
. It was discovered in northern Borneo
Borneo
Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
and described in 1871. Its main distinctive features are that it's ground-color is pale sulphurous, not white, and the border margins on its wings are blacker and wider. Wing-span is 35mm.
Known subspecies
- Eurema ada choui (Gu, 1994)
- Eurema ada indosinica (Yata, 1991)
- Eurema ada iona (Talbot, 1939)
- Eurema ada prabha (FruhstorferHans FruhstorferHans Fruhstorfer was a German explorer, insect trader and entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He collected and described many new species of exotic butterflies, especially in Seitz's Macrolepidoptera of the World...
) - Eurema ada toba (de NicévilleLionel de NicévilleCharles Lionel Augustus de Nicéville was a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta . He studied the butterflies of South Asia and wrote a three volume monograph on the butterflies of India, Pakistan, Burma and Sri Lanka.Born in a noble Huguenot family, his father was a physician. He was educated...
) - Eurema ada varga (Fruhstorfer)
- Eurema ada yaksha (Fruhstorfer)