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Mesapia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Mesapia Gray, 1856

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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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