title: Appias (butterfly)
text: # Appias (butterfly)
  
  Appias, commonly called puffins or albatrosses, is a genus of butterflies in the subfamily Pierinae (whites) found in Africa and southern Asia.
  
  ## Species
  
  Listed alphabetically:
  
  * Appias ada (Stoll, [1781]) – rare albatross
  * Appias aegis (Felder, C & R Felder, 1861) – forest white
  * Appias albina (Boisduval, 1836) – common albatross or white albatross
  * Appias aroa (Ribbe, 1900)
  * Appias athama (Blanchard, 1848)
  * Appias caeca Corbet, 1941
  * Appias cardena (Hewitson, [1861])
  * Appias celestina (Boisduval, 1832) – common migrant
  * Appias clementina (Felder, C, 1860)
  * Appias dolorosa Fruhstorfer, 1910
  * Appias drusilla (Cramer, [1777]) – Florida white or tropical white
  * Appias epaphia (Cramer, [1779]) – diverse albatross or African albatross
  * Appias galene (Felder, C & R Felder, 1865)
  * ?Appias hero (Fabricius, 1793)
  * Appias hombroni (Lucas, 1852)
  * Appias inanis van Eecke, 1913
  * Appias indra (Moore, 1857) – plain puffin
  * Appias ithome (C. & R. Felder, 1859)
  * Appias lalage (Doubleday, 1842) – spot puffin
  * Appias lalassis Grose-Smith, 1887
  * Appias lasti (Grose-Smith, 1889) – Last's albatross
  * Appias leis (Geyer, [1832])
  * Appias libythea (Fabricius, 1775) – striped albatross
  * Appias lyncida (Cramer, [1777]) – chocolate albatross
  * Appias maria (Semper, 1875)
  * Appias mata Kheil, 1884
  * Appias melania (Fabricius, 1775) – grey albatross
  * Appias nephele Hewitson, [1861]
  * Appias nero (Fabricius, 1793) – orange albatross
  * Appias nupta (Fruhstorfer, 1897)
  * Appias olferna Swinhoe, 1890 – eastern striped albatross
  * Appias panda Fruhstorfer, 1903 – Nicobar albatross
  * Appias pandione (Geyer, [1832])
  * Appias paulina (Cramer, [1777]) – Ceylon lesser albatross or white albatross
  * Appias perlucens (Butler, 1898)
  * Appias phaola (Doubleday, 1847) – dirty albatross or Congo white
  * Appias phoebe (C. & R. Felder, 1861) Appias phoebe
  * Appias placidia (Stoll, [1790])
  * Appias punctifera d'Almeida, 1939
  * Appias remedios Schröder & Treadaway, 1990
  * Appias sabina (C. & R. Felder, [1865]) – Sabine albatross or albatross white
  * Appias sylvia (Fabricius, 1775) – woodland white or common albatross
  * Appias waltraudae Schröder, 1977
  * Appias wardii (Moore, 1884) – lesser albatross
  * Appias zarinda (Boisduval, 1836) – eastern orange albatross
  