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Introduction
Aethionema Pieride Classification Kingdom Animalia Phylum Arthropoda Class Insecta Order Lepidoptera Suborder Ditrysia Superfamily Papilionoidea Family Pieridae Subfamily Pierinae Genus Pieris Binominal name (In taxonomy (botany, zoology, etc.), the binominal name, or binomial, comes from the. ..) Pieris ergane
(Geyer, 1828)
The æthionema pieridae (Pieris ergane) is a lepidopteran insect of the pieridae family of the Pierinae subfamily and of the genus Pieris.
This butterfly belongs to the red list (We speak of “red list” to designate a list containing…) of insects of metropolitan France (Metropolitan France, sometimes shortened to Metropolis, is in common parlance the…) (1994).
Denomination
Pieris ergane (Geyer, 1828)
Subspecies
- Pieris ergane detersa (Verity, 1911) in the mountains of Armenia and the Caucasus
- Pieris ergane elbursina (Bytinsky-Salz, 1937)
Vernacular names
The æthionema is called Mountain Small White in English, Blanca escasa in Spanish and wedewitje in Dutch.
Biology
Flight period and wintering
The æthionema pieridae has two generations per year in the Alps (three generations in the Pyrenees). The butterfly is present from April to August. It overwinters in the chrysalis state (In holometabolous insects (for example butterflies and bees), which carry out…).
Host plants
The host plants are Brassicaceae. The caterpillars are present from April to September on a Brassicaceae called Rock Aethionema (Aethionema saxatile).
Description
It is a white butterfly (White is the color of a body heated to around 5,000°C (see…) with a yellow underside (There are (at least) five definitions of yellow which designate roughly the same …) light ocher.
The underside of the yellow hindwing has evenly distributed dark scales. The length (The length of an object is the distance between its two most extremities…) of the forewing of the Aethionema’s Pierid varies from 19 to 24 mm. The butterfly has a largely whitish coloration. The upperside of the forewing has a gray quadrilateral-shaped spot on the apex. The underside of the forewing is devoid of any markings or spots (Graphic) black. A few dark scales are scattered on the underside of the hindwings of specimens of the first generation of the year.
Caterpillar and chrysalis
Its eggs are laid singly. The caterpillar is green with black dots surrounded by yellow on the sides.
Ecology and distribution
The Aethionema Pieris is present in southern Europe and in the west (L The west is a cardinal point, opposite the east. It is the direction towards which…) of Asia (Asia is one of the five continents or part of the supercontinents Eurasia or Afro-Eurasia of the …) in isolated colonies. In France, it is found in Hautes-Alpes, Drôme, Isère, Pyrénées-Orientales and Aude. In Europe, the butterfly is also present in the eastern part of Spain, Italy, the Balkans and Bulgaria. In Asia, it is present from Turkey to the north of Iran.
Biotope
The butterfly is dependent on grassy rocky escarpments and hot stony slopes between 1,000 and 2,200 meters above sea level (Altitude is the vertical elevation of a place or an object in relation to a level…) .
Protection
The æthionema moth belongs to the red list of insects in mainland France (1994).
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