Sinopieris dubernardi

Sinopieris dubernardi, or Oberthür's white, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is treated as a member of the genus Sinopieris, or alternately, the genus Pontia.[2] It is found in China, where it inhabits grassland plateaus and mountainsides at elevations above 2,000 meters.[3]

Sinopieris dubernardi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Sinopieris
Species:
S. dubernardi
Binomial name
Sinopieris dubernardi
(Oberthür, 1884)
Synonyms[1]
  • Pieris dubernardi Oberthür 1884
  • Parapieris chumbiensis de Nicéville (1897)
  • Synchloe dubernardi O. Bang-Haas (1938)
  • Pieris dubernardi var. kozlovi Alphéraky, 1897
  • Pieris dubernardi pomiensis Yoshino, 1998
  • Pieris dubernardi rothschildi Verity, 1911
  • Pieris dubernardi var. gyantsensis Verity, 1911
  • Pieris dubernardi pomiensis Yoshino, 1998
  • Synchloe dubernardi bromkampi O. Bang-Haas, 1938

Subspecies

Sinopieris dubernardi has a number of subspecies:[4]

  • S. d. bromkampi (O. Bang-Haas, 1938) (China: Gansu)
  • S. d. chumbiensis (de Nicéville, 1897) (southern Tibet)
  • S. d. dubernardi (China: northern Yunnan, western Sichuan)
  • S. d. gyantsenisis (Verity, 1911) (southern Tibet)
  • S. d. kozlovi (Alphéraky, 1897) (China: Nanshan)
  • S. d. pomiensis (Yoshino, 1998) (eastern Tibet)
  • S. d. rothschildi (Verity, 1911) (China: Shaanxi)
  • S. d. wangi Huang, 1998 (south-eastern Tibet)

References
  1. Häuser C., Holstein J., Kroupa A.S., Steiner A. & Turiault M. (eds) (2016). GloBIS (GART): Global Butterfly Information System (version Sep 2013). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 29th January 2016 (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
  2. Savela, Markku. "Sinopieris dubernardi (Oberthür, 1884)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  3. Butterflies of temperate Asia
  4. Insecta Pro Taxonomy February 16, 2016


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