Leptidea Explained

Leptidea is a genus of butterflies of family Pieridae, the whites and yellows. They live in Europe and Asia.

The genus contains the following species:^[1]

• Leptidea amurensis Ménétriés, 1859^[2]
• Leptidea darvazensis Bolshakov, 2004 Central Asian mountains
• Leptidea descimoni Mazel, 2004 Kyrgyzstan
• Leptidea duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871) – eastern wood white – South Europe, Asia Minor, Balkans, Iran
• Leptidea gigantea (Leech, 1890) China
• Leptidea juvernica – cryptic wood white^[3]
• Leptidea lactea Lorkovic, 1950 Tapaischan, China
• Leptidea morsei Fenton, [1882]
• Leptidea reali Reissinger, [1990] – Real's wood white
• Leptidea serrata Lee, 1955 China
• Leptidea sinapis (Linnaeus, 1758) – wood white
• Leptidea yunnanica Koiwaya, 1996 China

External links

• images representing Leptidea at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

Notes and References

1. Web site: Leptidea. nic.funet.fi. 7 October 2011.
2. Web site: Leptidea amurensis. 7 October 2011.
3. Dinca. Vlad. Lukhtanov, Vladimir A.. Talavera, Gerard. Vila, Roger. Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies. Nature Communications. 30 April 2011. 2. 324. 10.1038/NCOMMS1329. free. 21610727 . 2011NatCo...2..324D .