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Appias paulina (Christmas Island White)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Appias paulina, the common albatross, Christmas Island white or Ceylon lesser albatross, is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found from India to Samoa, including Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Australia. The wingspan is about 50 mm. The larvae feed on Drypetes australasica, Drypetes deplanchei and Alchornea ilicifolia.
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Prey / Diet

Caphexandra heydeana[1]
Capparis canescens[2]
Drypetes deplanchei (Yellow Tulip)[2]
Drypetes indica[1]
Drypetes littoralis[1]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0