Biology:Leptidea

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Short description: Butterfly genus in family Pieridae

Leptidea
(MHNT) Leptidea sinapis - Foret de Bouconne, France - male dorsal.jpg
Wood white, Leptidea sinapis
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Dismorphiinae
Genus: Leptidea
Billberg, 1820
Species

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Synonyms
  • Leucophasia Stephens, 1827

Leptidea is a genus of butterflies of family Pieridae, the whites and yellows. They live in Europe and Asia.

The genus contains the following species:[1]

  • Leptidea amurensis Ménétriés, 1859[2]
  • Leptidea darvazensis Bolshakov, 2004 Central Asian mountains
  • Leptidea descimoni Mazel, 2004 Kyrgyzstan
  • Leptidea duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871) – eastern wood white – South Europe, Asia Minor, Balkans, Iran
  • Leptidea gigantea (Leech, 1890) China
  • Leptidea juvernica stat. nov. – cryptic wood white[3]
  • Leptidea lactea Lorkovic, 1950 Tapaischan, China
  • Leptidea morsei Fenton, [1882]
  • Leptidea reali Reissinger, [1990] – Real's wood white
  • Leptidea serrata Lee, 1955 China
  • Leptidea sinapis (Linnaeus, 1758) – wood white
  • Leptidea yunnanica Koiwaya, 1996 China

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1304247 entry