Dismorphia lysis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Pieridae
- Genus
- Dismorphia
- Species
- Dismorphia lysis
- Scientific Name
- Dismorphia lysis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Dismorphia lysis
Dismorphia lysis, the dainty egg white or Lysis mimic white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Ecuador to southern Peru. The habitat consists of cloud forests.
The wingspan is about 40 mm (1.6 in). Adults have long narrow almost elliptical forewings and large hindwings. The underside is white, mottled in grey and yellow.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Dismorphia altis
- Dismorphia amphione
- Dismorphia arcadia
- Dismorphia astyocha
- Dismorphia boliviana
- Dismorphia buchtieni
- Dismorphia crisia
- Dismorphia cubana
- Dismorphia eunoe
- Dismorphia hyposticta
- Dismorphia laja
- Dismorphia lelex
- Dismorphia lewyi
- Dismorphia lua
- Dismorphia lygdamis
- Dismorphia lysis
- Dismorphia manuelita
- Dismorphia medora
- Dismorphia medorilla
- Dismorphia melia
- Dismorphia mirandola
- Dismorphia nemesis
- Dismorphia niepelti
- Dismorphia orise
- Dismorphia pimpla
- Dismorphia spio
- Dismorphia teresa
- Dismorphia thermesia
- Dismorphia thermesina
- Dismorphia theucharila
- Dismorphia zaela
- Dismorphia zathoe