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Cloudless Sulphur

Phoebis sennae

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 742, February 710, March 806, April 1,530, May 937, June 455, July 409, August 647, September 811, October 2,156, November 1,046, December 675.
United States38,861
Texas9,123
Alabama2,921
Georgia2,620
North Carolina2,607
California1,946
Tennessee1,425
Arizona1,368
South Carolina1,366
Virginia1,186

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilyWhites, Yellows, and Sulphurs · Pieridae
GenusPhoebis

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