Cepora

Cepora
Cepora nerissa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Pierini
Genus:	Cepora Billberg, 1820
Species
See text
Synonyms
Huphina Moore, [1881]

Cepora is a genus of butterflies, commonly called gulls, in the family Pieridae. The genus contains about 20 species shared between the Indomalayan and Australasian realms.

Species

Listed alphabetically:^[1]

• Cepora abnormis (Wallace, 1867) – Papuan gull
• Cepora aspasia (Stoll, [1790])
• Cepora bathseba (Snellen, 1902)
• Cepora boisduvaliana (C & R Felder, 1862)
• Cepora celebensis (Rothschild, 1892)
• Cepora eperia (Boisduval, 1836) – Sulawesi gull
• Cepora eurygonia (Hopffer, 1874)
• Cepora fora (Fruhstorfer, 1897)
• Cepora himiko Hanafusa, 1994
• Cepora judith (Fabricius, 1787) – orange gull
• Cepora julia (Doherty, 1891)
• Cepora kotakii Hanafusa, 1989
• Cepora laeta (Hewitson, 1862) – Timor gull
• Cepora licea (Fabricius, 1787) – Nias gull
• Cepora nadina (Lucas, 1852) – lesser gull
• Cepora nerissa (Fabricius, 1775) – common gull
• Cepora pactolicus (Butler, 1865)
• Cepora perimale (Donovan, 1805) – caper gull, Australian gull
• Cepora temena (Hewitson, 1861)
• Cepora timnatha (Hewitson, 1862)
• Cepora wui Chou, Zhang & Wang, 2001

References

1. Cepora, funet.fi

• Tree of Life web project

External links

• Images representing Cepora at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
• Images representing Cepora at Encyclopedia of Life