Southern dogface | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Zerene |
Species: | Z. cesonia
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Binomial name | |
Zerene cesonia (Stoll, 1790)
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Synonyms | |
Colias cesonia (Stoll, 1790) |
Zerene cesonia, the southern dogface, is a North and South American butterfly in the family Pieridae, subfamily Coliadinae (until recently the species was sometimes placed in the related genus Colias instead of Zerene).