''Mesapia'' is a
genus
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of
butterflies
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 ...
in the
family
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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 contains only one species, ''Mesapia peloria'', the Tibet blackvein, which is found in
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
,
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
and
China
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. It is a mid-sized to large species.
Subspecies
*''M. p. epsteina''
Tadokoro, T, Koide, Y. & Hori, K., 2014 (Nepal, southern slope of Himalaya)
*''M. p. peloria'' (Kukunoor, Tsinghai)
*''M. p. grayi''
O. Bang-Haas, 1934 (Gansu)
*''M. p. leechi''
O. Bang-Haas, 1934 (western Sichuan)
*''M. p. tibetensis''
D'Abrera, 1990 (south-eastern Tibet)
*''M. p. minima''
Huang, 1998 (north-western Tibet: Xiangangjiang Mountains)
See also
*
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 ...
*
List of butterflies of India
The following is a list of the butterflies of India.
India has extremely diverse terrain, climate and vegetation, which comprises extremes of heat cold, desert and jungle, of low-lying plains and the highest mountains, of dryness and dampness, is ...
*
List of butterflies of India (Pieridae)
This is a list of the pierid butterflies of India. It forms part of the full List of butterflies of India.
The family Pieridae, or the whites and yellows are a family of butterflies of moderate or small size. The common names refer to the two pre ...
References
Further reading
*
* Tadokoro, T, Koide, Y. & Hori, K., 2014. Description of a new subspecies of
Mesapia peloria' from central Nepal, and taxonomic notes for other subspecies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). ''Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan'', 65(2): 51-59
abstract
Pierini
Monotypic butterfly genera
Taxa named by George Robert Gray
Pieridae genera
Taxa described in 1856
Butterflies of Asia
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