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Mesapia Gray, 1856

Mesapia Gray, 1856; List Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1: 92, TS: Pieris peloria Hewitson
Mesapia, Pieridae Holarcticae [Heiner Ziegler]
Mesapia ; Winhard, 2000, Butterflies of the world, 10: 15

Mesapia peloria (Hewitson, 1853)

W.China. See [About maps] Pieris peloria Hewitson, 1853; Ill. exot. Butts [1] (Pieris II): [32], pl. [17], f. 15-16
Mesapia peloria ; [EBW]; [MRS, 255]

1400x1456 (~284Kb) underside female China, Qinghai prov., Caka nuo vill (3500m), 19.7.2010, Photo © A. Timchenko leg.

M. p. peloria

Kukunoor, Tsinghai Aporia lama Alphéraky, 1887; in Romanoff, Mem. lép. 3 : 404

M. p. grayi O. Bang-Haas, 1934

Gansu Mesapia peloria grayi O. Bang-Haas, 1934; Ent. Z. 48: 16
Mesapia peloria grayi ; [MRS, 255]

M. p. leechi O. Bang-Haas, 1934

W.Sichuan Mesapia peloria leechi O. Bang-Haas, 1934; Ent. Z. 48: 16
Mesapia peloria leechi ; [MRS, 255]

M. p. tibetensis D'Abrera, 1990²

SE.Tibet

M. p. minima Huang, 1998

NW.Tibet (Xiangangjiang Mts.) Mesapia peloria minima Huang, 1998; Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 41: 276, pl. 2. f. 7a-f, 8a-f, TL: Maojialia - Darwa lake, 4800-5200m

31.10.2011 (1)

References:

[A. Timchenko]

Andrew Timchenko; Beijing, China (ex-Moscow, Russia)

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BHL]

The; Biodiversity Heritage Library; and on; Internet Archive; Note: The linking to the content of Internet Archive is somewhat delicate -- notify me when links break!

[EBW]

Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6

[Heiner Ziegler]

Switzerland / Schweiz; www.pieris.ch

[MRS]

Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2

[²]

This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.

Some related literature:

Alphéraky, 1887

Diagnoses de quelques lépidoptères inédits du Thibet in Romanoff, Mem. lép. 3 : 403-406

Gray, 1856

List of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Papilionidae List Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1: 106pp

Hewitson, 1853

Illustrations of new species of exotic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson. Ill. exot. Butts [1] : (Systematic Index) I, (Ornithoptera and Papilio): [1-2], pl. [1] (1855), (Papilio II): [3-4], pl. [2] (1856), (Papilio III): [5-6], pl. [3] (1858), (Papilio IV): [7-8], pl. [4] (1859), (Papilio V): [9-10], pl. [5] (1861), (Papilio VI): [11-12], pl. [6] (1864), (Papilio VII-VIII): [13-16], pl. [7-8] (1865), (Papilio IX): [17-18], pl. [9] (1868), (Papilio X-XII): [19-22], pl. [10-12] (1869), (Papilio XIII): [23-24], pl. [13] (1873), (Papilio XIV): [25-26], pl. [14] (1875), (Papilio XV): [27-28], pl. [15] (1877), (Pieris I): [29-30], pl. [16] (1852), (Pieris II): [31-32], pl. [17] (1853), (Pieris III-VI): [33-40], pl. [18-21] (1861), (Pieris VII): [41-42], pl. [22] (1862), (Pieris VIII): [43-44], pl. [23] (1866), (Euterpe): [45-46], pl. [24] (1860), (Euterpe II): [47-48], pl. [25] (1872), (Euterpe and Leptalis): [49-50], pl. [26] (1853), (Leptalis II): [51-52], pl. [27] (1857), (Leptalis III): [53-54], pl. [28] (1858), (Leptalis IV): [55-56], pl. [29] (1860), (Leptalis V-VII): [57-62], pl. [30-32] (1870), (Callidryas and Eronia): [63-64], pl. [33] (1867), (Euploea): [65-66], pl. [34] (1858), (Euploea II): [67-68], pl. [35] (1866), (Heliconia I): [69-70], pl. [36] (1853), (Heliconia II-III): [71-74], pl. [37-38] (1854), (Heliconia IV): [75-76], pl. [39] (1858), (Heliconia V): [77-78], pl. [40] (1867), (Heliconia VI): [79-80], pl. [41] (1871), (Heliconia and Tithorea VII): [81-82], pl. [42] (1873), (Heliconia VIII): [83-84], pl. [43] (1875), (Athesis): [85-86], pl. [44] (1872), (Mechanitis I): [87-88], pl. [45] (1856), (Mechanitis II-III): [89-92], pl. [46-47] (1860), (Ithomia I): [93-94], pl. [48] (1851), (Ithomia II): [95-96], pl. [49] (1852), (Ithomia III): [97-98], pl. [50] (1853), (Ithomia IV-V): [99-102], pl. [51-52] (1854), (Ithomia VI-XIII): [103-118], pl. [53-60] (1855)

Huang, 1998

Five New Butterflies from N. W. Tibet Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 41: 271-283

Winhard, 2000

Pieridae I Butterflies of the world, 10: (1) 40pp, (2) 48pls

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