Leptidea
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| Leptidea | |
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| Wood White, Leptidea sinapis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Division: | Rhopalocera |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Subfamily: | Dismorphiinae |
| Genus: | Leptidea Billberg, 1820 |
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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
- Leptidea descimoni Mazel, 2004
- Leptidea duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871) – Eastern Wood White
- Leptidea gigantea (Leech, 1890)
- Leptidea juvernica stat. nov. – Cryptic Wood White.[3]
- Leptidea lactea Lorkovic, 1950
- Leptidea morsei Fenton, [1882]
- Leptidea reali Reissinger, [1990] – Real's Wood White
- Leptidea serrata Lee, 1955
- Leptidea sinapis (Linnaeus, 1758) – Wood White
- Leptidea yunnanica Koiwaya, 1996
References
- ↑ "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. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS1329.
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