''Sinopieris'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...

in the

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Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...

. The genus occurs in Gansu,

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

, Nanshan,

Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), Ning ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of th ...

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and

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...

. All six species were originally included in ''Pieris'' and subsequently in ''

Pontia ''Pontia'' is a genus of pierid butterflies. They are found in the Holarctic, but are rare in Europe and central to eastern North America, and a few species range into the Afrotropics. Several East Asian species once placed here are now more of ...

''. From ''Pieris'', this genus is most easily (though not entirely reliably) by the venation in the apical area of the forewing. Most ''Sinopieris'' species have a suffused grey or blackish post-discal band whereas ''Pieris'' usually have a single (males) or a pair (females) of blackish post-discal spots on the forewings, and no trace of any spot or band on the hindwings.

Species

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Sinopieris davidis ''Sinopieris davidis'' is a species of butterfly in the genus ''Sinopieris'', but also possibly in ''Pontia''. It was described by Charles Oberthür in 1876 and is found in China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is ...

'' (Oberthür, 1876) (

) *''

Sinopieris dubernardi ''Sinopieris dubernardi'', or Oberthür's white, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is treated as a member of the genus ''Sinopieris'', or alternately, the genus ''Pontia''. It is found in China, where it inhabits grassland plat ...

'' (Oberthür, 1884) ( Gansu, Nanshan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan) *''

Sinopieris kozlovi ''Sinopieris'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. The genus occurs in Gansu, Nepal, Nanshan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan. All six species were originally included in ''Pieris'' and subsequently in ''Pontia''. From ''Pieris ...

'' (Alpheraky, 1897) (

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

) *''

Sinopieris sherpae ''Sinopieris'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. The genus occurs in Gansu, Nepal, Nanshan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan. All six species were originally included in ''Pieris'' and subsequently in ''Pontia''. From ''Pieris ...

'' (Epstein, 1979) (

) *''

Sinopieris stoetzneri ''Sinopieris'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. The genus occurs in Gansu, Nepal, Nanshan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan. All six species were originally included in ''Pieris'' and subsequently in ''Pontia''. From ''Pieris ...

'' (Draeseke, 1925) (Sichuan, Yunnan) *'' Sinopieris venata'' (Leech, 1891) ( Ta-chien-lu, at altitude 3050 m)

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''Sinopieris'' Butterflies & Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species
Pierini Pieridae genera {{Pieridae-stub