Leptidea duponcheli

Leptidea duponcheli
	Leptidea duponcheli and forma aestiva in Seitz 27g
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
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

L. d. duponcheli
L. d. lorkovici (Pfeiffer, 1932) turkisch Nordsyrien
L. d. maiae Alberti, 1969 Armenia, Greater Caucasus.
L. d. vartiani Gross & Ebert, 1975 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.[2]

Biology

The larva feeds on Onobrychis, Leguminosae.

References

Staudinger in Staudinger & Wocke, 1871 Catalog der Lepidopteren des europaeischen Faunegebiets (Edn. 2)
Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

External links

Lepidoptera Caucasi

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[1] Staudinger in Staudinger & Wocke, 1871 Catalog der Lepidopteren des europaeischen Faunegebiets (Edn. 2)

[2] Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.