Leptidea duponcheli

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Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Family:Pieridae
Leptidea duponcheli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Leptidea
Species:
L. duponcheli
Binomial name
Leptidea duponcheli
(Staudinger, 1871) [1]

Leptidea duponcheli, the Eastern wood white, is a butterfly found in the Palearctic (South Europe, Asia Minor, Balkans, Iran) that belongs to the whites family.

  • Leptidea duponcheli duponcheli
  • Leptidea duponcheli lorkovici (Pfeiffer, 1932) [2] turkisch Nordsyrien
  • Leptidea duponcheli maiae Alberti, 1969 [3] Armenia, Greater Caucasus.
  • Leptidea duponcheli vartiani Gross & Ebert, 1975 [4].[5] Iran

Description from Seitz

L. duponcheli Stgr. (27 g), from South France, the eastern districts of South Europe, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Persia, differs from sinapis in the marking of the underside, as shown in the figure. — In the summer-form aestiva Stgr. (27 g) the upperside is feebly, the underside more strongly yellow, the latter being without markings.[6]

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