Pieris napi (Linnaeus, 1758)

Das, Gaurab Nandi, Eitschberger, Ulf, Singh, Navneet & Chandra, Kailash, 2021, A new species of the genus Pieris Schrank, 1801 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae: Pierinae) with taxonomic notes on the Pieris napi group from India, Zootaxa 5004 (4), pp. 501-520 : 503

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1F52E880-A352-4949-A937-802A462D9689

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5150829

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AE8788-A078-DD19-FF56-FD3E1750FC65

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Plazi

scientific name

Pieris napi
status

 

Pieris napi group

Diagnosis. The Pieris napi species-group is distinct from the other groups of the genus Pieris ( brassicae -group and rapae -group) in having the wing veins thickly suffused with black scales, both ventrally and dorsally, and stout neck lamina with the larger scent gland of the androconia (lamina long with smaller scent gland in the brassicae -group, whereas slender lamina with narrow neck and small scent gland in the rapae -group).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Ericaceae

Genus

Pieris

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