LEPIDOPTERA

• PIERIDAE Duponchel,1835

  • LEPTIDEA Billberg,1820

    
    

    • Leptidea duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871)

Leptidea duponcheli duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871)

• TYPE LOCALITY. "Gall.[ia] m.[eridionalis]; Ped.[emontana]; Bith.[ynia]; Pont.[us]" [S. France].

• SYNONYMS: mqjae Alberti, 1969.

• RANGE. S. Europe and Asia Minor to Transcaucasia, the Caucasus and the Crimea.

• DISTRIBUTION AND VARIATION. The Crimea, the Caucasus Major - the nominate subspecies; Transcaucasia - ssp. lorkovici (Pfeiffer, 1932). Specimens from the Talysh Mts. and Kopet-Dagh probably belong to the ssp. vartiani Gross et Ebert 1975.

• HABITATS AND BIOLOGY. Arid sparse woodlands and forest edges, meadows and other habitats with xerophilous vegetation up to 2,000 m a.s.1. Host plants Fabaceae.

• SIMILAR SPECIES. L. sinapis: UPF black apical spot not elongate; UNH with lighl greenish-grey dusting.

Photo and text: Guide to the BUTTERFLIES OF RUSSIA and adjacent territories Volume 1. PENSOFT, Sofia - Moscow. 1997