Eurema simulatrix, the changeable grass yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Burma to Sundaland, Cambodia and the Philippines. The habitat consists of secondary or disturbed habitats including forest clearings, roadsides and riverbanks, parks and gardens.

The length of the forewings is for males and for females. Adults have two cell spots on the underside of the forewings and a large, almost cleft, reddish-brown apical spot on the forewing.

Eurema simulatrix

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised: E. s. simulatrix (Philippines: Mindanao) E. s. princessae Morishita, 1973 (Palawan) E. s. tecmessa (de Nicéville & Martin, [1896]) (southern Burma, Peninsular Malaya, southern Thailand, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo) – de Nicéville's grass yellow E. s. sarinoides (Fruhstorfer, 1910) (Sikkim to Burma, northern Thailand, Laos) – scarce changeable grass yellow E. s. littorea Morishita, 1968 (Langkawi) E. s. inouei Shirôzu & Yata, 1973 (Thailand, Cambodia, Indo-China) E. s. tiomanica Okubo, 1983 (Tioman)

Eurema simulatrix

Eurema irena is sometimes treated as a subspecies of Eurema simulatrix.

Eurema simulatrix

References

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Butterflies described in 1891

Butterflies of Singapore

Butterflies of Indochina

Butterflies of Borneo

Butterflies of Java