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. [9, 85]

The Psyche.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:16673

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 1.

Detailed information with references

Imago 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].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Crateva adansonii, Crateva magna, Crateva religiosa, Cleome rutidosperma [144].

Subspecies of Leptosia nina

Leptosia nina aebutia Fruhstorfer, 1910. [9]
L. n. chlorographa Hübner. [9]
L. n. comma Fruhstorfer, 1903. [9]
L. n. dione (Wallace, 1867). [9]
L. n. fumigata Fruhstorfer, 1903. [9]
L. n. georgi Fruhstorfer. [9]
L. n. malayana Fruhstorfer, 1910. [9]
L. n. nicobarica (Doherty, 1886). [9]
L. n. nina. [9]
L. n. niobe (Wallace, 1866). [9]
L. n. terentia Fruhstorfer. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Svetlana Shchavelina, Dmitriy Pozhogin.

Text data: Svetlana Shchavelina.

References

[9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
[85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
[144] Pisuth Ek-Amnuay "Butterflies of Thailand". 2nd Revised edition. Bangkok, 2012