Leptosia nina (Fabricius, 1793)

Taxonomy
class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Pieridae → subfamily Pierinae → tribe Anthocharidini → genus Leptosia → species Leptosia nina
Species name(s)
Leptosia nina (Fabricius, 1793) = Papilio nina Fabricius, 1793 = Leptosia chlorographa Hübner, 1818 = Papilio xiphia Fabricius, 1781 = Pontia crokera MacLeay, [1826] = Leptosia xiphia micropunctata van Eecke, 1918 = Leptosia nina micropunctata = Nychitona xiphia = Leptosia nina nina.
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Detailed information with references
Habitus and Differences from alike species
- Wingspan 35-65 mm. They are small white, unwary flyers at places not high above the ground. Sexes similar female is slightly larger, UP white with black at apex and a black postdiscal spot on FW. The black spot in subsp. ninausually extends downwards below vein 3 whereas that ofmalayanadoes not. [144]. Svetlana Shchavelina.
Larva food plants
- Crateva adansonii, Crateva magna, Crateva religiosa, Cleome rutidosperma [144]. Svetlana Shchavelina.
Subspecies Leptosia nina
- L. n. aebutia Fruhstorfer, 1910.
- L. n. chlorographa Hübner.
- L. n. comma Fruhstorfer, 1903.
- L. n. dione (Wallace, 1867).
- L. n. fumigata Fruhstorfer, 1903.
- L. n. georgi Fruhstorfer.
- L. n. malayana Fruhstorfer, 1910.
- L. n. nicobarica (Doherty, 1886).
- L. n. nina.
- L. n. niobe (Wallace, 1866).
- L. n. terentia Fruhstorfer.
Authors
Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.
Photos:
Svetlana Shchavelina, Dmitriy Pozhogin. Text data: Svetlana Shchavelina.
References
- [85] Lepidoptera.ru (Insecta.pro previous version / cтарая версия Insecta.pro)
- [144] Pisuth Ek-Amnuay "Butterflies of Thailand". 2nd Revised edition. Bangkok, 2012
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