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Adelpha californica
''Adelpha californica'', commonly known as the California Sister, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. They are common in California, but can also be found in western Nevada and Oregon, as well as in northern Baja California. The upper surfaces of their wings are dark brown to black with wide cream white bands dissecting both wings and two orange patches near the tips of the forewings. The underside is variously colored with browns, blue, orange, and white. ''A. californica'' is unpalatable to predators and is part of a large mimicry complex.
==Taxonomy==
''Adelpha californica'' is classified under the genus ''Adelpha'' (sisters) in the tribe Limenitidini of the subfamily Limenitidinae (admirals and relatives) of the brush-footed butterfly family Nymphalidae. It belongs to the ''serpa'' species-group of the genus. The species was first described by the British entomologist Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1865 as ''Heterochroa californica''. The type specimen was recovered from California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Adelpha californica'' (Butler, 1865) )〕
It was treated generally as a species (though it included ''Adelpha eulalia'' as a synonym) until 1944, when the entomologists Geoffrey Douglas Hale Carpenter and Bertram Maurice Hobby reclassified it as a subspecies of ''Adelpha bredowii''. Recent phylogenetic studies, however, conclude that morphological, geographical, and genetic evidence make it clear that it is a separate species.
''A. californica'' was also sometimes included in the genus ''Limenitis'' (admirals), but most modern lepidopterists classify it under the genus ''Adelpha''.
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