Sinopieris dubernardi, or Oberthür's white, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is treated as a member of the genus Sinopieris, or alternately, the genus Pontia.[2] It is found in China, where it inhabits grassland plateaus and mountainsides at elevations above 2,000 meters.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Sinopieris |
| Species: | S. dubernardi
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| Binomial name | |
| Sinopieris dubernardi (Oberthür, 1884)
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Subspecies
editSinopieris dubernardi has a number of subspecies:[4]
- S. d. bromkampi (O. Bang-Haas, 1938) (China: Gansu)
- S. d. chumbiensis (de Nicéville, 1897) (southern Tibet)
- S. d. dubernardi (China: northern Yunnan, western Sichuan)
- S. d. gyantsenisis (Verity, 1911) (southern Tibet)
- S. d. kozlovi (Alphéraky, 1897) (China: Nanshan)
- S. d. pomiensis (Yoshino, 1998) (eastern Tibet)
- S. d. rothschildi (Verity, 1911) (China: Shaanxi)
- S. d. wangi Huang, 1998 (south-eastern Tibet)
References
edit- ^ Häuser C., Holstein J., Kroupa A.S., Steiner A. & Turiault M. (eds) (2016). GloBIS (GART): Global Butterfly Information System (version Sep 2013). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 29th January 2016 (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Sinopieris dubernardi (Oberthür, 1884)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
- ^ Butterflies of temperate Asia
- ^ Insecta Pro Taxonomy February 16, 2016
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