Global InformationZerene eurydice information
| California dogface butterfly | |
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| Female | |
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| Male | |
Conservation status
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 Apparently Secure (NatureServe)[1] | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Zerene |
| Species: | Z. eurydice
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| Binomial name | |
| Zerene eurydice (Boisduval, 1855)
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| Synonyms | |
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Colias eurydice Boisduval, 1855 | |
Zerene eurydice, the California dogface butterfly, belongs to the family Pieridae and is a sister genus to Colias. [2] The Zerene eurydice and the Colias both share the "characteristic of having yellow-orange and black wing coordination." [3] Additionally the,"Colias and Zerene eurydice males have bright UV patterns on their wings."[3] There are only two species of the Zerene, the Zerene eurydice, and the Zerene cesonia, also known as the Southern dogface.[4] A study that collected mitochondrial DNA from various Colias butterfly species found that Z. eurydice had decreased divergence from the ingroup, highlighting how closely related these two genera are.[5] This species is endemic to California, and is California's state insect.[6] The California dogface butterfly varies in its wing color and pattern.
- ^ Zerene eurydice https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.117394/Zerene_eurydice cod-draft
- ^ Pacific Coast Entomological Society; Society, Pacific Coast Entomological; Van Duzee, Edward P.; Sciences, California Academy of; Society, Pacific Coast Entomological (1927). The Pan-Pacific entomologist. Vol. 4. San Francisco: Pacific Coast Entomological Society.
- ^ a b Fenner, Jennifer; Rodriguez-Caro, Luis; Counterman, Brian (2019-07-01). "Plasticity and divergence in ultraviolet reflecting structures on Dogface butterfly wings". Arthropod Structure & Development. 51: 14–22. Bibcode:2019ArtSD..51...14F. doi:10.1016/j.asd.2019.06.001. ISSN 1467-8039. PMID 31176003. S2CID 182949679.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
:3was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Wheat, Christopher W.; Watt, Ward B. (2008-06-01). "A mitochondrial-DNA-based phylogeny for some evolutionary-genetic model species of Colias butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 47 (3): 893–902. Bibcode:2008MolPE..47..893W. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.013. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 18442929.
- ^ California State Library Retrieved August 25, 2017.