Leptidea juvernica Williams, 1946

Bonelli, Simona, Barbero, Francesca, Casacci, Luca Pietro, Cerrato, Cristiana & Balletto, Emilio, 2015, The butterfly fauna of the Italian Maritime Alps: results of the EDIT project, Zoosystema 37 (1), pp. 139-167 : 148-149

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https://doi.org/ 10.5252/z2015n1a6

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scientific name

Leptidea juvernica Williams, 1946
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Leptidea juvernica Williams, 1946

Leptidea sinapis juvernica Williams, 1946: 79 .

FIRST RECORD FOR THE VALDIERI AREA. — Gianti & Gallo (2002) (as Leptidea reali View in CoL ).

This species was initially recorded as Leptidea reali Reissinger, 1990 .

For the moment, the occurrence in Italy of L. juvernica is based on a small number of specimens from the E Alps (V. Dincă, in litt.). The “non L. sinapis populations” of C Italy have been demonstrated to represent L. reali ( Dincă et al. 2011, 2013). In N Italy, 25 “non

FIG 2. — Parnassius mnemosyne ( Linnaeus, 1758) . Photograph: Davide Piccoli.

L. sinapis View in CoL populations” have been recorded, but no molecular data are currently available for the Valdieri area. However, L. juvernica is known to occur at least in NE Italy, at the Val di Tovo lakes ( Dincă et al. 2011, 2013).

CHOROTYPE. — Centralasiatic-European.

ECOLOGY. — Subnemoral, lower to upper montane, mesophilous, mesophilous.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Pieridae

Genus

Leptidea

Loc

Leptidea juvernica Williams, 1946

Bonelli, Simona, Barbero, Francesca, Casacci, Luca Pietro, Cerrato, Cristiana & Balletto, Emilio 2015
2015
Loc

Leptidea sinapis juvernica

WILLIAMS H. B. 1946: 79
1946
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