Pieris ergane (Geyer, 1828)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Pieridae → subfamily Pierinae → tribe Pierini → genus Pieris → subgenus Artogeia → species Pieris ergane

Species name(s)

Pieris (Artogeia) ergane (Geyer, 1828) = Papilio ergane Geyer, [1828] = Pontia narcaea Freyer, 1828 = Belenois charina = Pieris ergane (Geyer, 1828). [9, 10, 355]

Mountain Small White.

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, Crete, Romania, France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Greece (mainland), Spain (mainland), Italy (mainland), Crete, Macedonia, Romania, Northern Aegean Islands, Slovenia, France (mainland), Croatia, Yugoslavia. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Aethionema saxatile. [28].

Subspecies of Pieris ergane

Pieris ergane detersa Verity, 1911. [355]
P. e. elbursina Bytinski-Salz, 1937. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

The species current position in the website taxa tree: Teruo Tadokoro.

Photos: Paolo Mazzei.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[1] O. Karsholt, J. Razowski (eds.), 1996. The Lepidoptera of Europe: a distributional checklist
[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[10] de Jong, Y.S.D.M. (ed.) (2011) Fauna Europaea version 2.4 (faunaeur.org)
[28] Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (leps.it), 2012
[355] S.K. Korb, L.V. Bolshakov. 2011. A catalogue of butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoformes) of the former USSR. Second edition, reformatted and updated. Eversmannia. Suppl. 2. 124 p.