Taxonomic Data for Family Pieridae (Lepidoptera) in West of Mazandaran Province
Abstract The Pieridae family includes the most familiar butterflies also known as Cabbage-White and Grass Yellow. They have a long stable status of the species in this family. A faunistic study on the Pieridae family was carried out in the West of Mazandaran province, Northern Iran. A total of 7 spe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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University of Isfahan
2020-09-01
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| Series: | تاکسونومی و بیوسیستماتیک |
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| Online Access: | https://tbj.ui.ac.ir/article_25750_54f6c31c39eb93fa8c28b635af91749c.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract The Pieridae family includes the most familiar butterflies also known as Cabbage-White and Grass Yellow. They have a long stable status of the species in this family. A faunistic study on the Pieridae family was carried out in the West of Mazandaran province, Northern Iran. A total of 7 species of the family (5 genera) were collected. These species were: Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758), Pieris (napi) pseudorapae (Verity, 1908), Pieris rapae (Linnaeus, 1758), Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus, 1758), Pontia (daplidice) edusa (Linnaeus, 1758; Fabricius, 1777), Colias crocea (Fourcroy, 1758), and Gonepteryx rhamni (Linnaeus, 1758). For these species, illustrations of adults’ upper wing and lower wing morphology and their male genitalia are given. |
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| ISSN: | 2008-8906 2322-2190 |