Reseda butterfly
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Reseda butterfly ( Pontia edusa ) |
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The Pontia edusa ( Pontia edusa ) or Reseda-veined White, is a butterfly ( butterfly ) from the family of Whites (Pieridae).
features
The Reseda butterfly is a small to medium-sized migrant butterfly , which differs from most other whites by its green-gray spots on the underside of the hind wings. A similar pattern can be found in the aurora butterfly , but much more divided, and in the alpine whitefly , where it follows the veining. It is habitually indistinguishable from Pontia daplidice . Genital examinations are the only way to tell the difference between these two types. One also speaks of the species complex Pontia edusa / P. daplidice .
The caterpillars of the Reseda white butterfly are strikingly colored: their green, black-dotted body has wide, yellow stripes. They are quite similar to the caterpillars of the great cabbage white butterfly .
Similar species
- Pontia daplidice
- Alpine whiteling ( Pontia callidice )
- Euchloe ausonia
- Pontia chloridice
Subspecies
- Pontia edusa edusa ( Fabricius , 1777) (Finland and NE Central SE Europe, Italy, Turkey, Caucasus, Ukraine, Russia)
- Pontia edusa persica ( Bienert , 1869) (Iran, Afghanistan)
- Pontia edusa nubicola ( Fruhstorfer , 1908) (Turkestan)
- Pontia edusa amphimara ( Fruhstorfer , 1908) (China (Szetschwan), Yunnan)
- Pontia edusa praeclara Fruhstorfer , 1910 (SW-China)
- Pontia edusa moorei ( Röber , 1907) (Kashmir, Baluchistan, Tibet, Yunnan, SE-China)
- Pontia edusa avidia ( Fruhstorfer , 1908) (S-China,? Korea)
- Pontia edusa davendra Hemming , 1934 (Siberia (Ussuri))
distribution
The Reseda butterfly is found in Central Europe , Italy and Southeast Europe up to the Asian region, whereas Pontia daplidice is found in Southwest Europe, North Africa and only very sporadically up to Central Europe and has no pronounced tendency to migrate.
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd-Jürgen Kurz, Matthias Nuß, Malte Westphalen, Occurrence and way of life of the Reseda white (Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758)) in Saxony (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) , Sächsische Entomologische Zeitschrift 1 (2006, PDF )
- ↑ Heiner Ziegler: www.euroleps.ch , online: http://www.euroleps.ch/seiten/s_art.php?art=pier_edusa (accessed on January 16, 2013)
literature
- Heiko Bellmann : The new Kosmos butterfly guide. Butterflies, caterpillars and forage plants. Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-440-09330-1 .
- Josef Settele, Roland Steiner, Rolf Reinhardt, Reinart Feldmann: Butterflies: The butterflies of Germany. Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2005, ISBN 3-8001-4167-1
- Tom Tolman, Richard Lewington: The butterflies of Europe and Northwest Africa , Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-440-07573-7
- Hans-Josef Weidemann: Butterfly: observe, determine , Naturbuch-Verlag Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-894-40115-X
- Günter Ebert (Ed.): The butterflies of Baden-Württemberg Volume 1, Tagfalter I (Knight butterflies (Papilionidae), Weißlinge (Pieridae), Edelfalter (Nymphalidae)), Ulmer Verlag Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-800-13451-9
Web links
- Lepiforum e. V. Taxonomy and Photos
- www.schmetterling-raupe.de
- Natural history information system
- Heiner Ziegler: Butterflies of Switzerland
- Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa (English)
- Pontia edusa at Fauna Europaea