Pieris krueperi (Staudinger, 1860)

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 krueperi

Species name(s)

Pieris (Artogeia) krueperi (Staudinger, 1860) = Pieris kureperi = Pieris krueperi prisca Staudinger, 1886 = Pieris krueperi vernalis Staudinger, 1862 = Pieris krueperi (Staudinger, 1860). [9, 10, 187, 355]

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Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Palaearctic.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia. [1].
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (mainland), Dodecanese Islands ?, Macedonia North Aegean. [10].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Alyssum saxatile, Alyssum montanum. [28].

Subspecies of Pieris krueperi

Pieris krueperi devta (de Nicéville, [1884]). [355]
P. k. krueperi. [404]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

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

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
[187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org
[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.
[404] Stanislav K. Korb & Lavr V. Bolshakov (2016). A systematic catalogue of butterflies of the former Soviet Union (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lituania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan) with special account to their type specimens (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea) // Zootaxa 4160 (1): 001–324