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Appias cardena

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Yellow puffin

InSamuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven's Essai d'une faune entomologique de l'archipel Indonéerlandais
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Appias
Species:	A. cardena
Binomial name
*Appias cardena* (Hewitson, 1861)^[1]
Synonyms
Pieris cardena Hewitson, 1861 Tachyris cardena perakana Fruhstorfer, 1902 Pieris hagar Vollenhoven, 1865

Appias cardena, the yellow puffin, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861. It is found in the Indomalayan realm.^[2]

Subspecies[edit]

A. c. cardena (northern Borneo)
A. c. perakana (Fruhstorfer, 1902) (Peninsular Malaysia, possibly northern Sumatra)
A. c. hagar (Vollenhoven, 1865) (Sumatra)

^ Hewitson, 1861 Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson.

^ Seitz, A., 1912-1927. Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter Grossschmetterlinge Erde9

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