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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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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