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Cloudless Sulphur
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Butterflies & moths

Cloudless Sulphur

Phoebis sennae (Linnaeus, 1758)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishCloudless Sulphur
Dutch—
SpanishMariposa Azufre Sin Nubes Común
Chinese黄菲粉蝶
Sranan Tongokapelka (general name for the group)
Scientific namePhoebis sennae (Linnaeus, 1758)

About this species

Phoebis sennae, the cloudless sulphur, is a mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Americas. There are several similar species such as the clouded sulphur (Colias philodice), the yellow angled-sulphur (Anteos maerula), which has angled wings, the statira sulphur (Aphrissa statira), and other sulphurs, which are much smaller. The species name comes from the genus Senna to which many of the larval host plants belong.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderLepidoptera
FamilyPieridae
GenusPhoebis

In Suriname

22Records in Suriname
11iNaturalist observations
1950First record
2026Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Paramaribo9
  • Sipaliwini3
  • Wanica1
  • Brokopondo1
  • Commewijne1
  • Para1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

Sources & credits

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