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Leptidea is a genus of butterflies of family Pieridae, the whites and yellows. They live in Europe and Asia.

The genus contains the following species:^[1]

Leptidea amurensis Ménétriés, 1859^[2]
Leptidea darvazensis Bolshakov, 2004 Central Asian mountains
Leptidea descimoni Mazel, 2004 Kyrgyzstan
Leptidea duponcheli (Staudinger, 1871) – eastern wood white – South Europe, Asia Minor, Balkans, Iran
Leptidea gigantea (Leech, 1890) China
Leptidea juvernica stat. nov. – cryptic wood white^[3]
Leptidea lactea Lorkovic, 1950 Tapaischan, China
Leptidea morsei Fenton, [1882]
Leptidea reali Reissinger, [1990] – Real's wood white
Leptidea serrata Lee, 1955 China
Leptidea sinapis (Linnaeus, 1758) – wood white
Leptidea yunnanica Koiwaya, 1996 China

References

^ "Leptidea". nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
^ "Leptidea amurensis". Retrieved 7 October 2011.
^ Dinca, Vlad; Lukhtanov, Vladimir A.; Talavera, Gerard; Vila, Roger (30 April 2011). "Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies". Nature Communications. 2: 324. Bibcode:2011NatCo...2..324D. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS1329. PMID 21610727.

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