''Zegris'' is a
Palearctic
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Th ...
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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 ...
. This genus was erected by
Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de Boisduval (24 June 1799 – 30 December 1879) was a French lepidopterist, botanist, and physician.
He was one of the most celebrated lepidopterists of France, and was the co-founder of the Société ento ...
in 1836. It is characterized by the very strongly clubbed antennae and the bushy palpi, but especially by the shape of the larva and pupa and the manner of pupation.
Species
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Zegris eupheme''
(Esper, 1804)
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Zegris fausti''
Christoph, 1877 Turkestan, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan
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Zegris pyrothoe''
(Eversmann, 1832) southwestern Siberia, Turan, Kazakhstan, western China
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Zegris zhungelensis''
Huang & Murayama, 1992 Xinjiang
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Zegris meridionalis''
Lederer, 1852 central and southern Spain
References
External links
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Anthocharini
Pieridae genera
Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval
Taxa described in 1836
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