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title: "Lyside Sulphur"
description: "Kricogonia lyside — Owady i pająki. Kricogonia lyside, the lyside sulphur or guayacan sulphur, is a North American, Caribbean, and South American butterfly in the family Pieridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/lyside-sulphur
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Lyside Sulphur

> Kricogonia lyside — Owady i pająki. Kricogonia lyside, the  lyside sulphur or guayacan sulphur, is a North American, Caribbean, and South American butterfly in the family Pieridae.

- Scientific name: *Kricogonia lyside*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 7784
- Wikidata: [Q2328605](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2328605)
- iNaturalist taxon: [204775](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/204775)

## Names

- en: Lyside Sulphur
- es: Mariposa azufre guayacana

## Countries with the most observations

US (5876), MX (1453), DO (78), PR (47), CW (42), JM (31), AW (22), VE (22), BS (20), TC (14), CU (9), CO (6)

## Summary

Kricogonia lyside, the  lyside sulphur or guayacan sulphur, is a North American, Caribbean, and South American butterfly in the family Pieridae.
In seasons with heavy monsoons, this butterfly is seen in massive migrations which are frequent in Texas but more rare in the southwest.  It is also an occasional resident in southern Florida.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: macro_biologist · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/293229244

## Machine access

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