Dismorphiinae | |
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Leptidea sinapis | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
Family: | Pieridae |
Subfamily: | Dismorphiinae Schatz , 1887 |
Dismorphiinae (or mimic sulphurs) is a subfamily of butterflies from the family Pieridae. It consists of about 100 species in 7 genera, distributed mainly in the Neotropical region, of which only one species occurs in North America and one genus, Leptidea, in the Palaeartic region.