Perrhybris pamela

Pamela
Upperside of male
Underside of male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Perrhybris
Species:	P. pamela
Binomial name
Perrhybris pamela (Stoll, [1870])
Synonyms
Papilio pyrrha Fabricius, 1775 Papilio iphigenia Schulze, 1776 (preocc. Cramer, 1775) Perrhybris eueidias Hübner, [1819] Mylothris alethina Butler, 1872 Perrhybris ostrolenka Staudinger, 1884 Pieris alethina Pieris malenka Hewitson, 1852

The Pamela^[1] (Perrhybris pamela) is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found from Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama, south to Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. This species breeds in lowland rainforest at altitudes between sea level and about 900 metres.

Pieris malenka. Figs. 5 (male), 6 (female). Accepted as Perrhybris pamela (Stoll, 1780).

The wingspan is 66–70 mm (2.6–2.8 in). It is strongly sexually dichromatic, with the female resembling some species of Heliconiini.

Larvae have been recorded on Capparis isthmensis and Capparis pittieri.

Subspecies

• Perrhybris pamela pamela (Suriname)
• Perrhybris pamela eleidias (Brazil (Espírito Santo, São Paulo))
• Perrhybris pamela malenka (Venezuela)
• Perrhybris pamela alethina (Costa Rica, Panama)
• Perrhybris pamela flava
• Perrhybris pamela bogotana (Colombia)
• Perrhybris pamela amazonica (Peru)
• Perrhybris pamela glessaria (Ecuador)
• Perrhybris pamela carmenta (Peru, Bolivia)
• Perrhybris pamela incisa (Brazil (Bahia))
• Perrhybris pamela lucasi (French Guiana)
• Perrhybris pamela fruhstorferi (Panama)
• Perrhybris pamela boyi (Brazil (Amazonas))
• Perrhybris pamela chajulensis (Mexico, Honduras)
• Perrhybris pamela mapa (Mexico)
• Perrhybris pamela bertha (Peru)
• Perrhybris pamela mazuka (Peru)

There is also an undescribed subspecies from Costa Rica.

References

1. Pamela, Butterflies of Amazonia

External links

• Butterflies of the Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador)