Pontia edusa (Fabricius, 1777)

Taxonomy

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

Species name(s)

Pontia edusa (Fabricius, 1777) = Papilio edusa Fabricius, 1777 = Pieris edusa. [9, 10]

Bath White.

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Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 5.

Russia regions

#1. Kaliningradsky; #2. Kolsky; #3. Karelsky; #4. Evropeisky Severo-Zapadny; #6. Evropeisky Severo-Vostochny; #7. Evropeisky yuzhno-tayozhny; #8. Evropeisky Tsentralny; #9. Evropeisky Tsentralno-Chernozyomny; #10. Sredne-Volzhsky; #11. Volgo-Donsky; #12. Nizhnevolzhsky; #13. Zapadno-Kavkazsky; #14. Vostochno-Kavkazsky; #15. Severo-Uralsky; #16. Sredne-Uralsky; #17. Yuzhno-Uralsky; #19. Sredneobsky; #20. Yuzhno-Zapadnosibirsky; #22. Krasnoyarsky; #23. Predaltaisky; #24. Gorno-Altaisky; #25. Tuvinsky; #26. Predbaikalsky; #27. Pribaikalsky; #28. Zabaikalsky; #36. Sredne-Amursky; #37. Nizhne-Amursky; #38. Sakhalin; #39. Yuzhno-Kurilsky; #40. Primorsky.

Detailed information with references

Distribution

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium ?, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Isles ?, Hungary, Germany, Greece (mainland), Denmark (mainland), Dodecanese Islands, Ireland, Italy (mainland), Cyprus ?, Crete Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg ?, Macedonia, Malta, the Netherlands ?, ?, Norway (mainland)?Channel Islands ?, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sardinia ?, North Aegean, Sicily, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey (European part), Ukraine, Finland, Croatia, Cycladic, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia, Yugoslavia. [10].
Regions of the Russian Federation: the Volga-Don, East Caucasus, Gorno-Altaisk, the European North-East, the European North-West, the European Central Black Earth, the European Central European South taiga, Transbaikalia, Western Caucasus, Kaliningrad, Karelia, Kola, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhne-Amur, Lower Volga,Prealtay, of Baikal, Pribaikalskiy, Primorye, Sakhalin, the North Urals, Mid-Amur, the Volga-Average, Average Urals, Sredneobskaya, Tuva, South West Siberian Yuzhno-Kuril, South Ural. [3].

Larva food plants / other food objects

Reseda. [28].

Subspecies of Pontia edusa

Pontia edusa davendra Hemming, 1934. [9]
P. e. edusa. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Andrey Sazykin, Oleg Seliverstov.

Text data: Peter Khramov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

[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