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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.
It is a larval host and nectar source for the Cloudless Giant Sulphur (Phoebis sennae) butterfly. [7] It is also of special value to native bumble bees . [ 7 ] [ 9 ]
Description. This species is a typical member of the genus. Both genders typically have pale yellow wings above with no traces of orange, unlike its close cousin the orange sulphur which may also be yellowish. Males have clean borders, while females have yellow dots within this region. Females sometimes exhibit a white form known as alba.
Tiffin is a city in and the county seat of Seneca County, Ohio, United States. [10] Developed along the Sandusky River, Tiffin is located about 55 miles (89 km) southeast of Toledo. The population was 17,953 at the 2020 census. It is the home of Heidelberg University and Tiffin University.
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Cramer, 1777. Synonyms. Phoebis statira Cramer, 1777. Aphrissa statira, the statira sulphur, [2] is a species of Lepidoptera in the family Pieridae. [3] The species is a medium-sized yellow butterfly, with females more pale than males. They are found from southern regions of Florida and Texas through southern Brazil and northern Argentina.
Colias eurytheme. Colias eurytheme, the orange sulphur, also known as the alfalfa butterfly and in its larval stage as the alfalfa caterpillar, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, where it belongs to the lowland group of " clouded yellows and sulphurs" subfamily Coliadinae. It is found throughout North America from southern Canada to Mexico.
The Tiffin River is a 54.9-mile-long (88.4 km) [1] tributary of the Maumee River in northwestern Ohio in the United States. [2] Headwater tributaries of the river rise in southeastern Michigan. The river drains a primarily rural farming region in the watershed of Lake Erie. Early French traders called the river Crique Féve, translated as Bean ...