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Zerene eurydice

California dogface butterfly
Female
Male

Apparently Secure  (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Zerene
Species:
Z. eurydice
Binomial name
Zerene eurydice
(Boisduval, 1855)
Synonyms

Colias eurydice Boisduval, 1855

Zerene eurydice, the California dogface butterfly, belongs to the family Pieridae and is a sister genus to Colias. [2] The Zerene eurydice and the Colias both share the "characteristic of having yellow-orange and black wing coordination." [3] Additionally the,"Colias and Zerene eurydice males have bright UV patterns on their wings."[3] There are only two species of the Zerene, the Zerene eurydice, and the Zerene cesonia, also known as the Southern dogface.[4] A study that collected mitochondrial DNA from various Colias butterfly species found that Z. eurydice had decreased divergence from the ingroup, highlighting how closely related these two genera are.[5] This species is endemic to California, and is California's state insect.[6] The California dogface butterfly varies in its wing color and pattern.

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  1. ^ Zerene eurydice https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.117394/Zerene_eurydice cod-draft
  2. ^ Pacific Coast Entomological Society; Society, Pacific Coast Entomological; Van Duzee, Edward P.; Sciences, California Academy of; Society, Pacific Coast Entomological (1927). The Pan-Pacific entomologist. Vol. 4. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Entomological Society.
  3. ^ a b Fenner, Jennifer; Rodriguez-Caro, Luis; Counterman, Brian (2019-07-01). "Plasticity and divergence in ultraviolet reflecting structures on Dogface butterfly wings". Arthropod Structure & Development. 51: 14–22. Bibcode:2019ArtSD..51...14F. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2019.06.001. ISSN 1467-8039. PMID 31176003. S2CID 182949679.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Wheat, Christopher W.; Watt, Ward B. (2008-06-01). "A mitochondrial-DNA-based phylogeny for some evolutionary-genetic model species of Colias butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47 (3): 893–902. Bibcode:2008MolPE..47..893W. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.013. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 18442929.
  6. ^ California State Library Retrieved August 25, 2017.
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