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title: "Cloudless Sulphur"
description: "Phoebis sennae — Insects & spiders. Phoebis sennae, the cloudless sulphur, is a mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Americas."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/cloudless-sulphur
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cloudless Sulphur

> Phoebis sennae — Insects & spiders. Phoebis sennae, the cloudless sulphur, is a mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Americas.

- Scientific name: *Phoebis sennae*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 54202
- Wikidata: [Q2710909](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2710909)
- iNaturalist taxon: [48550](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/48550)

## Names

- en: Cloudless Sulphur
- es: Mariposa Azufre Sin Nubes Común
- fr: Piéride jaune

## Countries with the most observations

US (39280), MX (4105), BR (1275), CR (310), AR (285), CL (221), EC (139), CO (114), HN (91), DO (78), NI (77), TT (74)

## Summary

Phoebis sennae, the cloudless sulphur, is a mid-sized butterfly in the family Pieridae found in the Americas. There are several similar species such as the clouded sulphur (Colias philodice), the yellow angled-sulphur (Anteos maerula), which has angled wings, the statira sulphur (Aphrissa statira), and other sulphurs, which are much smaller. The species name comes from the genus Senna to which many of the larval host plants belong.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebis_sennae

## Photo

![Cloudless Sulphur](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cloudless-sulphur/medium.jpg)

Photo: Juan G. · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/180531317

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/cloudless-sulphur?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).