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Dercas Doubleday, [1847]
Sulphurs
Dercas Doubleday, [1847]; Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): 70, TS: Colias verhuelli Hoeven
Dercas Boisduval; (MS?)
Dercas [Heiner Ziegler]
 Dercas ; Winhard, 2000, Butterflies of the world, 10: 13
Dercas verhuelli (Hoeven, 1839)
Sikkim - Assam, Burma. See [About maps] Tailed Sulphur
Colias verhuelli Hoeven, 1839; Tijdschr. nat. geshied. physiol. 5 (4): 341, pl. 7 [8?], f. 3-4
Dercas verhuelli ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 160, f. 3]; [BOR, 167]; [MRS, 217]

Larva on Dalbergia benthami [MRS]

D. v. verhuelli
S.China, Indo-China Dercas verhuelli verhuelli ; [BOR, 167]
D. v. doubledayi Moore, 1905
N.India - S.Burma Dercas doubledayi Moore, 1905; Lep. Ind. 7:31, pl. 562, f. 1a-e
Dercas verhuelli menandrus Fruhstorfer, 1910; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9: pl 67d
Dercas verhuelli pallidus Fruhstorfer, 1910; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9 : 161 (2 April, 1910), pl. 67d, TL: Assam
Dercas verhuelli doubledayi [Yutaka Inayoshi]
 Dercas verhuelli doubledayi ; [BOR, 167]; [MRS, 217]; Winhard, 2000, Butterflies of the world, 10: 13, Title f. 6
D. v. parva Evans, 1924
S.Myanmar, Thailand Dercas verhuelli parva Evans, 1924; J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 29 (4): 972, TL: Myanmar
Dercas verhuelli parva [Yutaka Inayoshi]
Dercas gobrias Hewitson, 1864²
Borneo. See [About maps] Dercas verhuelli gobrias ; [BOR, 167]
D. g. herodorus Fruhstorfer, 1910
Peninsular Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra Dercas gobrias herodorus Fruhstorfer, 1910; in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9 : 161 (2 April, 1910), pl. 67, (51) f. d4, d5, , (58), TL: W.Sumatra
Dercas gobrias herodorus [Yutaka Inayoshi]
 Dercas verhuelli herodorus ; [BOR, 167]; [BMP: 95, pl. 9, f. 13]
Dercas gobrias herodorus ; Winhard, 2000, Butterflies of the world, 10: 13, pl. 16, f. 14
Dercas lycorias (Doubleday, 1842)
Sikkim - Assam. See [About maps] Plain Sulphur
Rhodocera lycorias Doubleday, 1842; in Gray, Zool. Miscell.: 77, TL: Mt. Kasiyae
Dercas lycorias lycorias [Yutaka Inayoshi]
 Dercas lycorias ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 160, f. 6]; [BOR, 167]; [MRS, 217]
D. l. lycorias
Sikkim, Assam - N.Burma, Yunnan Dercas brindaba Swinhoe, 1899; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 3 (13): 107, TL: Assam
Dercas decipiens de Nicéville, 1898; Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 2: 483, TL: Assam
Gonepteryx urania Butler, 1865; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (2): 458, pl. 26, f. 5, TL: N.India
Gonepteryx wallichii Doubleday, 1849; ?Proc. ent. Soc. Lond. 1 (5):?
Dercas lycorias lycorias ; [BOR, 167]
D. l. difformis de Nicéville, 1898
China Dercas lycorias difformis ; [MRS, 217]; Winhard, 2000, Butterflies of the world, 10: 13, pl. 16, f. 15
Dercas nina Mell, 1913
S.China (Kwangtung). See [About maps] Dercas nina Mell, 1913; Int. Ent. Zeit. Gub. 7: 194
Dercas nina ; [BOR, 167]; [MRS, 217]
Dercas nina f. nina ; [MRS, 217]
D. n. f. spaneyi Mell
Dercas nina f. spaneyi ; [MRS, 217]
Dercas enara Swinhoe²
C.China, W.China. See [About maps] Dercas enara ; [EBW]; [BOW: pl. 160, f. 3 (text)]

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References:
[About maps]
Warning! The maps are automaticly generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[BMP]
Eliot (Ed.), Corbet & Pendlebury, 1992; The Butterflies of The Malay Peninsula; 4th edition; ISBN 983-9681-05-2
[BOR]
D'Abrera, B., 1982, 1985, 1986; Butterflies of the Oriental Region, Part I-III
[BOW]
Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X
[EBW]
Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6
[Heiner Ziegler]
Switzerland / Schweiz; www.pieris.ch
[LAMAS-2005]
Gerardo Lamas; Entomofauna 26 (6): 57-100; A Bibliography of the Zoological Publications of Hans Fruhstorfer (1886* - 1922+)
[LAMAS-NEO]
Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)
[MRS]
Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2
[Yutaka Inayoshi]
A Check List of Butterflies in Indo-China; Chiefly from THAILAND, LAOS & VIETNAM
[²]
This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.

Some related literature:
Butler, 1865
Description of characters of six new species of rhopalocerous Lepidoptera in the collection of the British Museum Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1865 (2): 481-486
Doubleday, [1847]
The genera of diurnal Lepidoptera Gen. diurn. Lep. (1): xii + 1-250, pls. 1-30
Fruhstorfer, 1910
2. Familie: Pieridae, Weisslinge in Seitz, Gross-Schmett. Erde 9 : 119-120 (1909) 121-144 (14 January, 1910) 145-152 (11 February, 1910) 153-168 (2 April, 1910) 169-176 (4 April, 1910) 177-190 (20 May, 1910)
Hoeven, 1839
Buprestis daleni n. sp., Papilio payeni Boisduv. beschreven Tijdschr. nat. geshied. physiol. 5 (4): 338-343, pl. 7-8
Swinhoe, 1899
New Species of Oriental Lepidoptera Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 3 (13): 102-116
Winhard, 2000
Pieridae I Butterflies of the world, 10: (1) 40pp, (2) 48pls

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