Rhabdodryas

Rhabdodryas
At the Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Rhabdodryas
Godman & Salvin, [1889][1]
Species: R. trite
Binomial name
Rhabdodryas trite
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Rhabdodryas is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. The only species is the straight-line sulphur (Rhabdodryas trite).

R. trite puddles with other yellows and sulphurs including the statira sulphur (Aphrissa statira) and apricot sulphur (Phoebis argante); and orange-banded sulphur (Phoebis philea).

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