Anteos maerula

Yellow angled-sulphur
	male A. m. maerula in Jamaica (dorsal)
	male A. m. maerula in Jamaica (ventral)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Anteos
Species:	A. maerula
Binomial name
	Anteos maerula; (Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
	Papilio maerula Fabricius, 1775; Rhodocera maerula; Amynthia maerula; Papilio ecclipsis Cramer, [1777]; Rhodocera lacordairei Boisduval, 1836; Rhodocera gueneeana Boisduval, 1836; Gonepteryx maerula ab. flava Röber, 1909; Anteos maerula lacordairei;

Anteos maerula, the angled sulphur or yellow angled-sulphur, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found from Peru to Mexico. Rarely, migrants can be found up to eastern Nebraska, south-eastern Arizona, south-western New Mexico, southern Texas, Mississippi and Florida.^[2]

The wingspan is 82–117 mm.

The larvae feed on Cassia species, including Cassia emarginata.

References

F. Martin Brown and Bernard Heineman, Jamaica and its Butterflies (E. W. Classey, London 1972), Plate VII

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