Leptidea

Leptidea is a genus of butterflies of family Pieridae, the whites and yellows. They live in Europe and Asia.

Leptidea
Wood white, Leptidea sinapis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Dismorphiinae
Genus: Leptidea
Billberg, 1820
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Leucophasia Stephens, 1827

The genus contains the following species:[1]

  • Leptidea amurensis Ménétriés, 1859[2]
  • Leptidea darvazensis Bolshakov, 2004 Central Asian mountains
  • Leptidea descimoni Mazel, 2004 Kyrgyzstan
  • Leptidea duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871) – eastern wood white – South Europe, Asia Minor, Balkans, Iran
  • Leptidea gigantea (Leech, 1890) China
  • Leptidea juvernica stat. nov. – cryptic wood white[3]
  • Leptidea lactea Lorkovic, 1950 Tapaischan, China
  • Leptidea morsei Fenton, [1882]
  • Leptidea reali Reissinger, [1990] – Real's wood white
  • Leptidea serrata Lee, 1955 China
  • Leptidea sinapis (Linnaeus, 1758) – wood white
  • Leptidea yunnanica Koiwaya, 1996 China

References
  1. "Leptidea". nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  2. "Leptidea amurensis". Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  3. Dinca, Vlad; Lukhtanov, Vladimir A.; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger (30 April 2011). "Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies" (PDF). Nature Communications. 2: 324. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS1329. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2011.


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