Leptidea amurensis

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Leptidea amurensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Leptidea
Species:
L. amurensis
Binomial name
Leptidea amurensis

Leptidea amurensis is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found from western Siberia to the Ussuri region and in North Korea, China, Mongolia and Japan.

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Description in Seitz

amurensis L. amurensis Men. (27 g) from the Amur, North China and Japan, is especially characterised by the elongate forewing. The upperside is white, the male having a larger blackish subapical patch, which is absent from the female or is much smaller and less well marked; the underside is white, with a yellowish apical spot on the forewing and grey shadowv markings on the hindwing. — The spring-form vernalis Graes. is smaller, being darker beneath. — vibilia Janson[ now L. sinapis ssp. vibilia Janson, 1878], from North Japan, has more pointed wings than amurensis being similar to duponcheli in markings and colour. — morsei Fenton is apparently an aberration in which the subapical spot of the forewing above is less developed. [1]

Biology

The larvae feed on Hedysarum ussuriense , Lupinus species and Vicia amoena .

Subspecies


  1. Julius Rober in Seitz. A. in Seitz, A. ed. Band 1: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen Tagfalter, 1909, 379 Seiten, mit 89 kolorierten Tafeln (3470 Figuren)PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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