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''Gonepteryx mahaguru'', the lesser brimstone, is a medium-sized
butterfly
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
of the family Pieridae
The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...
, that is, the yellows and whites. It is native to the Kashmir, Uttarakhand, China, Korea, and Japan.
Relation to ''Gonepteryx aspasia''
Though there has historically been confusion regarding whether ''G. mahaguru'' and ''G. aspasia'' are different species – exacerbated by the fact that Ménétriès's 1859 description of ''G. aspasia'' received widespread recognition while Gistel's earlier 1857 description of ''G. mahaguru'' was unknown to his contemporaries – they have since been determined to be different species.See also
*List of butterflies of India (Pieridae)
This is a list of the pierid butterflies of India. It forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
The family Pieridae, or the whites and yellows are a family of butterflies of moderate or small size. The common names refer to the two pred ...
References
* * * * * * Gonepteryx Butterflies of Asia Butterflies described in 1857 Taxa named by Johannes von Nepomuk Franz Xaver Gistel {{Pieridae-stub