Catopsilia
Common emigrant, Jaipur, India
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Coliadini
Genus:	Catopsilia Hübner, [1819]
Species
See text
Synonyms
MurtiaHübner, [1819]

Catopsilia is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae, commonly called migrants or emigrants.

Contents

• Species
• References
• External links

Species

Ordered alphabetically. ^[1]

• Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775) – African emigrant, African migrant, or common vagrant
• Catopsilia gorgophone (Boisduval, 1836) – yellow migrant
• Catopsilia pomona (Fabricius, 1775) – common emigrant or lemon emigrant
• Catopsilia pyranthe (Linnaeus, 1758) – mottled emigrant or white migrant
• Catopsilia scylla (Linnaeus, 1763) – orange emigrant or orange migrant
• Catopsilia thauruma (Reakirt, 1866) – Madagascar migrant

Related Research Articles

Catopsilia scylla, the orange migrant or orange emigrant, is a species of butterfly that lives in South East Asia and Australasia. Its larvae feed predominantly on plants of the genera Cassia and Senna.

References

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External links

• Catopsilia