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.
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:
- E. s. simulatrix (Philippines: Mindanao)
- E. s. princessae <small>Morishita, 1973</small> (Palawan)
- E. s. tecmessa <small>(de Nicéville & Martin, [1896])</small> (southern Burma, Peninsular Malaya, southern Thailand, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo) â de Nicéville's grass yellow
- E. s. sarinoides <small>(Fruhstorfer, 1910)</small> (Sikkim to Burma, northern Thailand, Laos) â scarce changeable grass yellow
- E. s. littorea <small>Morishita, 1968</small> (Langkawi)
- E. s. inouei <small>Shirôzu & Yata, 1973</small> (Thailand, Cambodia, Indo-China)
- E. s. tiomanica <small>Okubo, 1983</small> (Tioman)
Eurema irena is sometimes treated as a subspecies of Eurema simulatrix.
References