Leptosia
| Leptosia | |
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| Leptosia medusa | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Subfamily: | Pierinae |
| Tribe: | Anthocharini |
| Genus: | Leptosia Hübner, 1818 |
| Species | |
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Several, see text | |
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Leptosia, commonly called wood whites, is a genus of pierid butterflies from the orangetip tribe (Anthocharini) .[1] Leptosia are found in Africa, except for Leptosia nina, which ranges from India to Australia, and Leptosia lignea, which is found only on Sulawesi. All have a frail appearance and broad rounded wings. They are only distantly related to the Palearctic wood whites Leptidea (Dismorphiinae).
Species
Listed alphabetically.[2]
- Leptosia alcesta (Stoll, [1782]) – African Wood White or Flip Flop (Subsaharan Africa)
- Leptosia bastini Hecq, 1997
- Leptosia hybrida Bernardi, 1952 – Hybrid Wood White (western Africa)
- Leptosia lignea (Vollenhoven, 1865) – (endemic to Sulawesi)
- Leptosia marginea (Mabille, 1890) – Black-edged Spirit (western Africa)
- Leptosia medusa (Cramer, [1777]) – Dainty Spirit (western Africa)
- Leptosia nina (Fabricius, 1793) – Psyche (Southeast Asia to Australia)
- Leptosia nupta (Butler, 1873) – Immaculate Wood White (western Africa)
- Leptosia wigginsi (Dixey, 1915) – Opaque Wood White (central Africa)
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