1. Taxonomic Data for Family Pieridae (Lepidoptera) in West of Mazandaran Province
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Somayeh Assadian Narenji, Marzieh Ramezan Toobi, Maryam Rahmati Baoji, and Massomeh Gholam Tamimi
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faunistic ,genitalia ,mazandaran ,morphology ,pieridae ,Science ,Technology (General) ,T1-995 - Abstract
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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- 2020
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