Mesapia
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Mesapia Gray, 1856[1] |
| Species: | M. peloria |
| Binomial name | |
| Mesapia peloria (Hewitson, 1853) | |
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Mesapia is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. It contains only one species, Mesapia peloria, the Tibet Blackvein, which is found in India, Nepal and China. It is a midsized to large species.
Subspecies
- Mesapia peloria epsteina Tadokoro, T, Koide, Y. & Hori, K., 2014 (Nepal, Southern slope of Himalaya)
- Mesapia peloria peloria (Kukunoor, Tsinghai)
- Mesapia peloria grayi O. Bang-Haas, 1934 (Gansu)
- Mesapia peloria leechi O. Bang-Haas, 1934 (western Sichuan)
- Mesapia peloria tibetensis D'Abrera, 1990 (south-eastern Tibet)
- Mesapia peloria minima Huang, 1998 (north-western Tibet: Xiangangjiang Mountains)
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Further reading
- Evans, W.H. (1932) The Identification of Indian Butterflies. (2nd Ed), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, India
- Tadokoro, T, Koide, Y. & Hori, K., 2014. Description of a new subspecies of Mesapia peloria from central Nepal, and taxonomic notes for other subspecies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan, 65(2): 51-59. abstract.