Cepora

Belongs within: Pieridae.

Cepora, the gulls, is an Indoaustralian genus of butterflies. Members have a dense fringe of hairs on the upper side of the hind wings between the anal veins that is more developed in females; females also have a dense patch of upright scales on the ventral surface of abdominal segment 6 (Braby 2000).

<==Cepora Billberg 1820B00 [incl. Huphina Moore 1881F55]
    |--C. aspasia (Stoll 1790) [=Pieris aspasia]F55
    |    |--C. a. aspasiaF55
    |    |--C. a. emma (Vollenhoven 1865) [=Pieris aspasia var. emma]F55
    |    |--C. a. fulcinia (Fruhstorfer 1911) [=Huphina aspasia fulcinia]F55
    |    |--C. a. irma (Fruhstorfer in Seitz 1910) [=Huphina aspasia irma]F55
    |    |--C. a. olga (Eschscholtz 1821) [=Huphina olga]F55
    |    |--C. a. olgina (Staudinger 1889) [=Huphina aspasia olgina, H. emma var. olgina]F55
    |    |--C. a. orantia (Fruhstorfer in Seitz 1910) [=Huphina aspasia orantia]F55
    |    |--C. a. poetelia (Fruhstorfer in Seitz 1910) [=Huphina aspasia poetelia]F55
    |    |--C. a. rhemia (Fruhstorfer in Seitz 1910) [=Huphina aspasia rhemia]F55
    |    `--C. a. tolmida (Fruhstorfer 1911) [=Huphina aspasia tolmida]F55
    |--C. boisduvaliana (Felder 1862) [=Huphina boisduvaliana]F55
    |    |--C. b. boisduvalianaF55
    |    |--C. b. balbagona (Semper 1890) [=Huphina boisduvaliana var. balbagona]F55
    |    |--C. b. cirta Fruhstorfer in Seitz 1910F55
    |    `--C. b. semperi (Semper 1890) [=Huphina boisduvaliana var. semperi]F55
    |--C. nerissaF55
    |    |--C. n. nerissaF55
    |    `--C. n. dissimilis Rothschild 1892F55
    `--C. perimale (Donovan 1805)B00
         |--C. p. perimaleB12
         |--C. p. bolana (Fruhstorfer 1903)F55
         |--C. p. inopinataPP02
         |--C. p. latilimbata (Butler 1876)B00
         `--C. p. scyllara (Macleay 1826)B12

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B00] Braby, M. F. 2000. Butterflies of Australia: their identification, biology and distribution vol. 1. CSIRO Publishing: Collingwood (Victoria).

[B12] Braby, M. F. 2012. The butterflies of El Questro Wilderness Park, with remarks on the taxonomy of the Kimberley fauna, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 27 (2): 161–175.

[F55] Franz, E. 1955. Die Typen und Typoide des Natur-Museums Senckenberg, 16). Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pieridae. Senckenbergiana Biologica 36: 339–367.

[PP02] Patrick, B., & H. Patrick. 2002. Butterflies of Fiji. Weta 24: 5–12.