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Phrissura aegis (C. & R. Felder, 1861)

Имаго Phrissura aegis

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Pieridae → subfamily Pierinae → tribe Pierini → genus Phrissura → species Phrissura aegis

Species name(s)

Phrissura aegis (C. & R. Felder, 1861) = Pieris aegis C. & R. Felder, 1861 = Appias (Phrissura) aegis. [9, 85]

The Forest White.

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Detailed information with references

Imago Habitus and Differences from alike species

  • Wingspan 45-55 mm. Male UP is pale greenish white, FW black border broad at apex and along termen, wide narrowing towards tornus, the inner edge of the black border strongly serrated, HW white with marginal black spots; UN similar to the UP but without marginal black spots on HW. Female has dark dusted markings on both wings, remaining a whitish patch across the end-cell, broken into faded-spots towards tornus on the FW and whitish at mid HW. [144].

Subspecies of Phrissura aegis

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Dmitriy Pozhogin.

Text data: Svetlana Shchavelina.

References

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