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The Florida White or Tropical White (''Appias drusilla'') is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in tropical America from Brazil north to southern peninsular Florida and the Florida Keys and Antilles. It frequently visits coastal Texas and is a rare stray to Nebraska and Colorado. The habitat consists of tropical lowland evergreen or semideciduous forests.〔(Butterflies and Moths of North America )〕 The wingspan is . Males are solid white on both the upper and lower surfaces of the wings except for a narrow edging of black along the forewing costal margin. The female has two forms: the dry-season form is all white and the wet season form has black along the forewing costal margin and a yellow-orange upper hindwing. The dry-season form is on wing from October to April and the wet-season form from May to September. They feed on flower nectar from a variety of weeds and garden plants including ''Lantana'' and ''Eupatorium''.〔 The larvae feed on Brassicaceae species, including ''Drypetes lateriflora'' and ''Capparis flexuosa'' in Florida. They are shade-loving and feed during the night and on cloudy days.〔 ==Subspecies== The following subspecies are recognised:〔 *''Appias drusilla drusilla'' (Peru, Argentina, Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia) *''Appias drusilla castalia'' (Fabricius, 1793) (Jamaica) *''Appias drusilla poeyi'' (Butler, 1872) (Cuba) *''Appias drusilla neumoegenii'' (Skinner, 1894) (Florida) *''Appias drusilla monomorpha'' Hall, 1936 (Grenada) *''Appias drusilla boydi'' Comstock, 1943 (Dominican Republic) *''Appias drusilla comstocki'' Dillon, 1947 (Dominica) *''Appias drusilla tenuis'' Lamas, 1981 (Peru) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Appias drusilla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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