Leptidea duponcheli

Leptidea duponcheli, the Eastern wood white, is a butterfly found in the Palearctic (South Europe, Asia Minor, Balkans, Iran) that belongs to the whites family.

Leptidea duponcheli
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Leptidea
Species:	L. duponcheli
Binomial name
Leptidea duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871) [1]

Subspecies

• Leptidea duponcheli duponcheli
• Leptidea duponcheli lorkovici (Pfeiffer, 1932) turkisch Nordsyrien
• Leptidea duponcheli maiae Alberti, 1969 Armenia, Greater Caucasus.
• Leptidea duponcheli vartiani Gross & Ebert, 1975 Iran

Description from Seitz

For a key to the terms used, see Glossary of entomology terms.

L. duponcheli Stgr. (27 g), from South France, the eastern districts of South Europe, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Persia, differs from sinapis in the marking of the underside, as shown in the figure. — In the summer-form aestiva Stgr. (27 g) the upperside is feebly, the underside more strongly yellow, the latter being without markings.^[2]

Biology

The larva feeds on Onobrychis, Leguminosae.