The first record of the genus Belenois (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from China

BACKGROUND: The family Pieridae is a large group of butterflies which plays an important role in evolutionary biology and contains many potential pests (Courtney 1986). Pieridae is a cosmopolitan family while the tropics harbour higher species richness. In a very recent expedition to the Chinese-Ind...

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Autores principales: Ge, Si-Xun, Hu, Shao-Ji, Shi, Hong-Liang, Han, Feng-Ying, Li, Ming-Jun, Ren, Li-Li
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Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2021
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Taxonomic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33519265
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e61332
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author Ge, Si-Xun
Hu, Shao-Ji
Shi, Hong-Liang
Han, Feng-Ying
Li, Ming-Jun
Ren, Li-Li
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Li, Ming-Jun
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description BACKGROUND: The family Pieridae is a large group of butterflies which plays an important role in evolutionary biology and contains many potential pests (Courtney 1986). Pieridae is a cosmopolitan family while the tropics harbour higher species richness. In a very recent expedition to the Chinese-Indian border area in Tibet Autonomous Region, a migratory species, Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793), was discovered for the first time, which comprises the first record of the genus Belenois in China and the highest altitude record of this species. NEW INFORMATION: The species B. aurota (Fabricius, 1793) is the first record of the genus Belenois from China. The specimen was collected at an altitude of about 3,000 m in Tibet Autonomous Region. Relevant details are presented for the species.
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spelling pubmed-78351962021-01-29 The first record of the genus Belenois (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from China Ge, Si-Xun Hu, Shao-Ji Shi, Hong-Liang Han, Feng-Ying Li, Ming-Jun Ren, Li-Li Biodivers Data J Taxonomic Paper BACKGROUND: The family Pieridae is a large group of butterflies which plays an important role in evolutionary biology and contains many potential pests (Courtney 1986). Pieridae is a cosmopolitan family while the tropics harbour higher species richness. In a very recent expedition to the Chinese-Indian border area in Tibet Autonomous Region, a migratory species, Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793), was discovered for the first time, which comprises the first record of the genus Belenois in China and the highest altitude record of this species. NEW INFORMATION: The species B. aurota (Fabricius, 1793) is the first record of the genus Belenois from China. The specimen was collected at an altitude of about 3,000 m in Tibet Autonomous Region. Relevant details are presented for the species. Pensoft Publishers 2021-01-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7835196/ /pubmed/33519265 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e61332 Text en Si-Xun Ge, Shao-Ji Hu, Hong-Liang Shi, Feng-Ying Han, Ming-Jun Li, Li-Li Ren http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Taxonomic Paper
Ge, Si-Xun
Hu, Shao-Ji
Shi, Hong-Liang
Han, Feng-Ying
Li, Ming-Jun
Ren, Li-Li
The first record of the genus Belenois (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from China
title The first record of the genus Belenois (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from China
title_full The first record of the genus Belenois (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from China
title_fullStr The first record of the genus Belenois (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from China
title_full_unstemmed The first record of the genus Belenois (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from China
title_short The first record of the genus Belenois (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from China
title_sort first record of the genus belenois (lepidoptera: pieridae) from china
topic Taxonomic Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7835196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33519265
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e61332
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