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Dismorphiinae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Dismorphiinae

Higher classification
  
Pieridae

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Superfamily
  
Papilionoidea

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Subfamily

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Lower classifications
  
Leptidea, Leptidea sinapis, Dismorphia, Leptidea reali, Enantia

Dismorphiinae, the mimic sulphurs, is a subfamily of butterflies from the family Pieridae. It consists of about 100 species in seven genera, distributed mainly in the Neotropical region, of which only one species occurs in North America and one genus, Leptidea, is in the Palaeartic region.

Genera

  • Dismorphia Hübner, 1816
  • Enantia Hübner, [1819]
  • Lieinix Gray, 1832
  • Leptidea Billberg, 1820
  • Moschoneura Butler, 1870
  • Patia Klots, 1933
  • Pseudopieris Godman & Salvin, [1890]
  • References

    Dismorphiinae Wikipedia