Leptosia
Leptosia | |
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Leptosia medusa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Subfamily: | Pierinae |
Tribe: | Anthocharini |
Genus: | Leptosia Hübner, 1818 |
Species | |
Several, see text | |
Synonyms | |
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Leptosia, commonly called wood whites, is a genus of pierid butterflies from the orangetip tribe (Anthocharini) .[1] Leptosia are found in Africa, except for Leptosia nina, which ranges from India to Australia, and Leptosia lignea, which is found only on Sulawesi. All have a frail appearance and broad rounded wings. They are only distantly related to the Palearctic wood whites Leptidea (Dismorphiinae).
Species
Listed alphabetically:[2]
- Leptosia alcesta (Stoll, [1782]) – African wood white or flip flop (Sub-Saharan Africa)
- Leptosia bastini Hecq, 1997
- Leptosia hybrida Bernardi, 1952 – hybrid wood white (western Africa)
- Leptosia lignea (Vollenhoven, 1865) – (endemic to Sulawesi)
- Leptosia marginea (Mabille, 1890) – black-edged spirit (western Africa)
- Leptosia medusa (Cramer, [1777]) – dainty spirit (western Africa)
- Leptosia nina (Fabricius, 1793) – Psyche (Southeast Asia to Australia)
- Leptosia nupta (Butler, 1873) – immaculate wood white (western Africa)
- Leptosia wigginsi (Dixey, 1915) – opaque wood white (central Africa)
References
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