Eurema celebensis is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae.[1] It is found in the Sula Islands Regency, Indonesia, on the islands of Sulawesi and Sula. It was first described by Alfred Russel Wallace and named Terias celebensis.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Eurema |
| Species: | E. celebensis
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| Eurema celebensis (Wallace, 1867)
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Description edit
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Wallace originally described the species as follows:
Male. — Above, black, with a suborbicular yellow patch extending from near the costa of the upper wings to just below the cell of the lower wings, twice sinuated towards the apex of the uppers, elsewhere regularly curved. Beneath, yellow, with spots arranged as in T. tominia. Female. — Dusky black, with a small subovate yellow patch across the end of the cell of the upper wings. The lower wings with the inner margin yellow, extending in an ovate patch between the cell and the outer angle.[2]
References edit
- ^ Yata, Osamu (31 March 1991). "A Revision of the Old World Species of the Genus Eurema Hubner (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Part II. Description of the smilax, the hapale, the ada and the sari (part) groups" (PDF). Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History. 10: 1–51. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2018. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ a b Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace (1867). "On the Pieridae of the Indian and Australian Regions". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 3. 14: 301–416 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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