Leptidea
Appearance
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Wood white, Leptidea sinapis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Subfamily: | Dismorphiinae |
Genus: | Leptidea Billberg, 1820 |
Species | |
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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
[edit]- ^ "Leptidea". nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ "Leptidea amurensis". Retrieved 7 October 2011.
- ^ Dinca, Vlad; Lukhtanov, Vladimir A.; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger (30 April 2011). "Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies". Nature Communications. 2: 324. Bibcode:2011NatCo...2..324D. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS1329. PMID 21610727.
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