Mesapia

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Rank Species		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus MesapiaGray, 1856

Similar Phulia, Leodonta, Charonias, Dixeia, Archonias

Mesapia is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. It contains only one species, Mesapia peloria, the Tibet blackvein, which is found in India, Nepal and China. It is a mid-sized to large species.

Subspecies

M. p. epsteina Tadokoro, T, Koide, Y. & Hori, K., 2014 (Nepal, southern slope of Himalaya)

M. p. peloria (Kukunoor, Tsinghai)

M. p. grayi O. Bang-Haas, 1934 (Gansu)

M. p. leechi O. Bang-Haas, 1934 (western Sichuan)

M. p. tibetensis D'Abrera, 1990 (south-eastern Tibet)

M. p. minima Huang, 1998 (north-western Tibet: Xiangangjiang Mountains)

References

Mesapia Wikipedia

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