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Phoebis philea
Photo take in a road near home small all yellow about 4 cm wingspan on black dot on the sides.Upperside of male bright yellow-orange; forewing has red-orange bar and hindwing has red-orange outer margin. The two forms of the female, one off-white and the other yellow-orange, are much larger than the male. Both have upperside of forewing with solid black cell spot and a submarginal row of broken, angled black smudges. Outer half of hindwing of yellow form is red-orange.
Open lowland sites such as gardens, forest edges, parks, road edges. Resident from Brazil north to peninsular Florida and the Keys.
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