Leptidea duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871)

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Pieridae → subfamily Dismorphiinae → tribe Leptideini → genus Leptidea → species Leptidea duponcheli

Species name(s)

Leptidea duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871) = duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871) = majae Alberti, 1969 = lathyri Duponchel (invalid homonym) = Leptidia inornata Nakahara, 1920. [9, 10]

Eastern Wood White.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:8815

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Russia regions

#13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Turkey - The European part of France, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (mainland), Macedonia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, France (mainland). [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: East Caucasian, West Caucasian. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Lathyrus, Lotus uliginosus. [28].

Subspecies of Leptidea duponcheli

Leptidea duponcheli duponcheli. [9]
L. d. lorkovici (Pfeiffer, 1932). [9]
L. d. vartiani Gross & Ebert, 1975. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photo: Dmitriy Pozhogin.

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
[3] Каталог чешуекрылых (Lepidoptera) России. Под ред. С. Ю. Синёва. СПб.; М.: Товарищество научных изданий КМК, 2008
[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