''Sinopieris davidis'' is a species of

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the genus ''

Sinopieris ''Sinopieris'' is a genus of butterfly, butterflies in the family (biology), family Pieridae. The genus occurs in Gansu, Nepal, Nanshan District, Zhuolu County, Nanshan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan. All six species were originally included ...

'', but also possibly 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 o ...

''. It was described by

Charles Oberthür Charles Oberthür (14 September 1845 – 1 June 1924) was a French amateur entomologist specializing in lepidoptera. Biography Charles Oberthür was born in Rennes, the son of the printer François-Charles Oberthür and Marie Hamelin, and brot ...

in 1876 and is found in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Subspecies

* ''Sinopieris davidis davidis'' (Yunnan, Sichuan) * ''Sinopieris davidis diluta'' (Verity, 1911) (Shaanxi) * ''Sinopieris davidis thibetana'' (Verity 1907) (Tibet)

References

Pierini Butterflies described in 1876 Taxa named by Charles Oberthür Butterflies of Asia {{Pieridae-stub