Gonepteryx Amintha
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''Gonepteryx amintha'' is a
butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...
of the family
Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family (biology), family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from Afrotropical realm, tropical Africa and Indomalayan realm, tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern ...
. It is found in the East
Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is a biogeographic realm of the Earth, the largest of eight. Confined almost entirely to the Eastern Hemisphere, it stretches across Europe and Asia, north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. Th ...
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Subspecies

*''G. a. amintha'' *''G. a. formosana'' (Fruhstorfer, 1908) (Taiwan) *''G. a. limonia'' Mell, 1943 (South Ussuri, Yunnan) *''G. a. meiyuanus'' Murayama & Shimonoya, 1963 (Taiwan) *''G. a. murayamae'' Nekrutenko, 1973 (Yunnan, Sichuan) *''G. a. thibetana'' Nekrutenko, 1968 (south-eastern Tibet)


References


Funet
Butterflies described in 1871 Gonepteryx Butterflies of Taiwan Taxa named by Émile Blanchard {{Pieridae-stub