Aporia harrietae

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Blackvein

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Aporia
Species:	A. harrietae

Binomial name

Aporia harrietae
(De Nicéville, 1892)

Bhutan Blackvein , Aporia harrietae is a midsized to large butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in Bhutan and possibly in India.

[edit] Description

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Male has upperside of both wings black. Fore wing with a thin white streak at the base of the costa ; a large creamy- white patch occupying the basal three-fourths of the discoidal cell, its outer end produced to a point ; a large patch occupying the basal two-thirds of the interno-median interspace (interspace 1), a discal series of five more or less oval spots curving evenly round the outer end of the cell, of which the anterior one is rather elongated and narrow, the three following are equal-sized elongated ovals, �the posterior one in the first median interspace (interspace 2) is the largest and occupies the base of the interspace ; the outer margin bears, one in each interspace at its middle, a series of somewhat diffused white spots.

Hind wing has the veins on the basal half of the wing defined with white, broadly margined on both sides with black ; the discoidal cell almost entirely creamy-white ; there is a very narrow costal and a wide subcostal streak, then five spots one in each interspace beyond the cell, that in the second median interspace (interspace 3) the smallest ; two elongated streaks in the submedian interspace (interspace 1), the inner one almost reaching to the margin of the wing, the outer one reaching to about halfway between the base of the wing and the margin ; two basal white streaks occupying the whole of the interspaces divided by the internal vein (vein 1 a) ; marginal diffused spots as in the fore wing, but each spot divided into two by the black internervular fold. Underside : differs from the upperside only in having on the outer margin from the costa to the second median vein (vein 3) a decreasing series of duplicated white streaks, one pair in each interspace, a small white spot in the two following interspaces. Hind wing has at the extreme base of the wing within the precostal nervure the usual bright yellow patch characteristic of the genus ; all the creamy-white markings of the upperside are pale yellow ; the markings differ from those on the upperside by the presence of a pair of elongated wedge-shaped pale yellow streaks in each interspace, each streak has its apex pointed, its base (which is placed on the outer margin) broad. Cilia of both wings on both sides black.

Female differs from the male only in being somewhat paler throughout.(Lionel de Niceville quoted in Bingham^[1])