''Mesapia'' is a
genus
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of
butterflies
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 ...
in the
family
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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 Le ...
. It contains only one species, ''Mesapia peloria'', the Tibet blackvein, which is found in
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
,
Nepal
Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne,
सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...
and
China
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. It is a mid-sized to large species.
Subspecies
*''M. p. epsteina''
Tadokoro, T, Koide, Y. & Hori, K., 2014 (Nepal, southern slope of Himalaya)
*''M. p. peloria'' (Kukunoor, Tsinghai)
*''M. p. grayi''
O. Bang-Haas, 1934 (Gansu)
*''M. p. leechi''
O. Bang-Haas, 1934 (western Sichuan)
*''M. p. tibetensis''
D'Abrera, 1990 (south-eastern Tibet)
*''M. p. minima''
Huang, 1998 (north-western Tibet: Xiangangjiang Mountains)
See also
*
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 Le ...
*
List of butterflies of India
The following is a list of the butterflies of India.
India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, i ...
*
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
Further reading
*
* Tadokoro, T, Koide, Y. & Hori, K., 2014. Description of a new subspecies of
Mesapia peloria' from central Nepal, and taxonomic notes for other subspecies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). ''Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan'', 65(2): 51-59
abstract
Pierini
Monotypic butterfly genera
Taxa named by George Robert Gray
Pieridae genera
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