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Sinopieris dubernardi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Sinopieris

Sinopieris dubernardi, the Oberthür's white, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is treated as a member of the genus Sinopieris, or alternately, the genus Pontia. It is found in China, where it inhabits grassland plateaus and mountainsides at elevations above 2,000 meters.

Subspecies

Sinopieris dubernardi has a number of subspecies:

  • S. d. bromkampi (Bang-Haas, 1938) (China: Gansu)
  • S. d. chumbiensis (de Nicéville, 1897) (southern Tibet)
  • S. d. dubernardi (China: northern Yunnan, western Sichuan)
  • S. d. gyantsenisis (Verity, 1911) (southern Tibet)
  • S. d. kozlovi (Alphéraky, 1897) (China: Nanshan)
  • S. d. pomiensis (Yoshino, 1998) (eastern Tibet)
  • S. d. rothschildi (Verity, 1911) (China: Shaanxi)
  • S. d. wangi Huang, 1998 (south-eastern Tibet)

    • References

    Sinopieris dubernardi Wikipedia
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