Zerene cesonia
| Southern dogface | |
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Secure (NatureServe) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Zerene |
| Species: | Z. cesonia
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| Binomial name | |
| Zerene cesonia (Stoll, 1790)
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| Synonyms | |
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Colias cesonia (Stoll, 1790) | |
Zerene cesonia, the southern dogface, is a North and South American butterfly in the family Pieridae, subfamily Coliadinae (until recently the species was sometimes placed in the related genus Colias instead of Zerene).