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Common Emigrant Catopsilia pomona in Keesara, Rangareddy district, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Coliadinae, the sulfurs, sulphurs, or yellows, are a subfamily of butterflies with about 300 described species.

There are 36 species in North America, where they range from Mexico to northern Canada. Males of most species are different from females, including, (for example, in the genera Colias and Gonepteryx) brilliant UV reflections which the females lack.



Systematics

The Coliadinae can be arranged in the 3 traditional tribes and a basal lineage, with one genus of unclear placement. The taxa—including some selected species—are arranged here in the presumed phylogenetic sequence, from the most ancient lineages to the most modern ones:

Basal lineage

Kricogonia Reakirt, 1863
Nathalis Boisduval,
Euremini

Terias Swainson, 1821
Pyrisitia Butler, 1870
Abaeis Hübner,
Eurema Hübner, – grass yellows
Leucidia Doubleday,
Teriocolias Roeber 1909
Goniopterygini

Dercas Doubleday, – sulphurs
Gonepteryx Leach, – brimstones
Coliadini

Catopsilia Hübner, – emigrants
Colias Fabricius, 1807 – clouded yellows
Zerene Hübner,
Zerene eurydice – California Dogface Butterfly
Anteos Hübner, – angled-sulphurs
Aphrissa Butler, 1873
Phoebis Hübner,
Phoebis sennae – Cloudless Sulphur
Phoebis avellaneda – Red-splashed Sulphur
Prestonia Schaus, 1920
Prestonia clarki Schaus, 1920
Rhabdodryas Godman & Salvin,
Rhabdodryas trite (Linnaeus, 1758)
Incertae sedis

Gandaca Moore,
Gandaca harina (Horsfield, ) – Tree Yellow
^ Brower (2006)

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