Moschoneura

Moschoneura


Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Moschoneura Butler, 1870^[1]
Species:	M. pinthous
Binomial name
*Moschoneura pinthous* (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Papilio pinthous Linnaeus, 1758 Papilio eumelia Cramer, 1780 Papilio vocula Stoll, 1781 Pieris enodia Godart, 1819 (repl. name) Pieris methymna Godart, [1819] Moschoneura theapina Butler, 1899 Dismorphia ithomia douglasina Bryk, 1953 Leptalis amelina Hopffer, 1874 Dismorphia pinthaeus gracilis Avinoff, 1926 Dismorphia pintharus proxima f. obscura Meier-Ramel, 1928

Moschoneura is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. It contains only one species, the Pinthous Mimic White (Moschoneura pinthous), which is found in northern South America.

Adults mimic Scada karschina and other Ithomiini species.^[2]

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:^[1]

Moschoneura pinthous pinthous (Surinam)
Moschoneura pinthous methymna (Godart, 1819) (Brazil)
Moschoneura pinthous cyra (Doubleday, 1844) (Brazil: Bahia)
Moschoneura pinthous ela (Hewitson, 1877) (Ecuador)
Moschoneura pinthous ithomia (Hewitson, 1867) (Ecuador, Peru)
Moschoneura pinthous amelina (Hopffer, 1874) (Peru)
Moschoneura pinthous proxima (Röber, 1924) (Brazil: Amazonas)
Moschoneura pinthous patricia Lamas, 2004 (Peru)
Moschoneura pinthous monica Lamas, 2004 (Peru)

Gallery

ssp. pinthous
ssp. amelina male
ssp. amelina female
ssp. ithomia
ssp. methymna

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Moschoneura.

1 2 Moschoneura, funet.fi
↑ Tol Web

External links

images representing Moschoneura pinthous at Consortium for the Barcode of Life

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, November 15, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.