Leptidea duponcheli

Leptidea duponcheli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Leptidea
Species:
L. duponcheli
Binomial name
Leptidea duponcheli
(Staudinger, 1871) [1]

Leptidea duponcheli, the Eastern wood white, is a butterfly found in the Palearctic (South Europe, Asia Minor, Balkans, Iran) that belongs to the whites family.

Subspecies

  • Leptidea duponcheli duponcheli
  • Leptidea duponcheli lorkovici (Pfeiffer, 1932) [2] turkisch Nordsyrien
  • Leptidea duponcheli maiae Alberti, 1969 [3] Armenia, Greater Caucasus.
  • Leptidea duponcheli vartiani Gross & Ebert, 1975 [4].[5] Iran

Description from Seitz

L. duponcheli Stgr. (27 g), from South France, the eastern districts of South Europe, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Persia, differs from sinapis in the marking of the underside, as shown in the figure. — In the summer-form aestiva Stgr. (27 g) the upperside is feebly, the underside more strongly yellow, the latter being without markings.[6]

Biology

The larva feeds on Onobrychis, Leguminosae.

References

  1. ↑ Staudinger in Staudinger & Wocke, 1871 Catalog der Lepidopteren des europaeischen Faunegebiets (Edn. 2)
  2. ↑ Pfeiffer, E. in Osthelder, l. & Pfeiffer, E. 1932 Lepidopteren-Fauna von Marasch in türkisch Nordsyrien Mitt. Münch. Ent. Ges. 22 : 17-32, pl. 3-4, : 38-51, : 52-73, : 74, : 74-82, : 83-87
  3. ↑ Alberti, B.,1969 Neue oder bemerkenswerte Lepidoptera-formen aus den Grossen Kaukasus Dt. Ent. Zs 16 (1-3) : 189-203
  4. ↑ Gross, F.G and Ebert, E, 1975: Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Rhopaloceren Irans. 2. Beitrag: Die Pieriden Irans (Contributions to the knowledge of the Rhopalocera of Iran. 2nd contribution: The Pieridae of Iran).Beiträge zur naturkundlichen Forschung in Südwestdeutschland
  5. ↑ Winhard, Walter 2000, Pieridae in Erich Bauer and Thomas Frankenbach Eds. Butterflies of the world 10: Goecke & Evers 2 vols. 2, pl. 1, f. 2
  6. ↑ Julius Rober in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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