Aporia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Pieridae
Subfamilia: Pierinae
Tribus: Pierini
Subtribus: Aporiina
Genus: Aporia
Species: A. acraea – A. agathon – A. bieti – A. chunhaoi – A. crataegi – A. delavayi – A. extrema – A. genestieri – A. gigantea – A. goutellei – A. harrietae – A. hastata – A. hippia – A. howarthi – A. intercostata – A. joubini – A. largeteaui – A. larraldei – A. leucodice – A. lhamo – A. martineti – A. monbeigi – A. nabellica – A. oberthueri – A. potanini – A. procris – A. shinnooka – A. soracta – A. tayiensis – A. wolongensis
Name

Aporia Hübner, 1819.

Type species: Papilio crataegi Linnaeus, 1758.
Synonyms

Leuconea Donzel, 1837. Type species: Papilio crataegi Linnaeus, 1758.
Metaporia Butler, 1870. Type species: Pieris agathon Gray, 1831 by original designation.

References

Huang, H. 2016a. New or little known butterflies from China - 2 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Nymphalidae, Lyeaenidae et Hesperiidae). Atalanta 47: 161–173. Reference page.
Hsu, Y.-F. & Chou, W.-I. 1999. Discovery of a new Pierid Butterfly, Aporia gigantea cheni Hsu and Chou (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 38(2): 222–227. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Hu, S.J., Zhang, H.H. & Yang, Y. 2021. A New Species of Aporia (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from Northwest Yunnan, China with Taxonomic Notes on Its Similar Sympatric Taxa. Zootaxa 4963(1): 001–010. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4963.1.1. Paywall. Reference page.
Koiwaya, S. 1993. Descriptions of three new genera, eleven new species and seven new subspecies of butterflies from China. Studies of Chinese Butterflies 2: 9–27, 43–111. Tokyo. Reference page.
Yoshino, K. 1995. New butterflies from China 1. Nota Lepidopterologica 1. Reference page.
Yoshino, K. 2001. New butterflies from China 6. Futao 38: 9–13. Reference page.
Yoshino, K. 2001. Notes on genus Aporia (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) from Yunnan and Sichuan, China. Futao 39: 2–9. Reference page.
Yoshino, K. 2003. New butterflies from China 8. Futao 43: 6–20. Reference page.
Yuan, F. & Wu, C.-S. 2005. A new subspecies of Aporia potanini Alpheraky from China (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 30(3): 606–608. PDF (in Chinese and English). Reference page.

Vernacular names
English: Blackveins
中文: 絹粉蝶屬

Aporia, the black-veined whites or blackveins, is a genus of pierid butterflies found in the Palearctic region.[1]
Species

Aporia acraea (Oberthür, 1885)
Aporia agathon (Gray, 1831) – great blackvein
Aporia bernardi Koiwaya, 1989
Aporia bieti (Oberthür, 1884)
Aporia chunhaoi Hu, Zhang & Yang, 2021
Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus, 1758) – black-veined white
Aporia delavayi (Oberthür, 1890)
Aporia genestieri (Oberthür, 1902)
Aporia giacomazzoi Della Bruna, Gallo & Sbordoni, 2003
Aporia gigantea Koiwaya, 1993
Aporia goutellei (Oberthür, 1886)
Aporia harrietae (Nicéville, 1893) – Bhutan blackvein
Aporia hastata (Oberthür, 1892)
Aporia hippia (Bremer, 1861)
Aporia howarthi Bernardi, 1961
Aporia joubini (Oberthür, 1913)
Aporia kamei Koiwaya, 1989
Aporia kanekoi Koiwaya, 1989
Aporia largeteaui (Oberthür, 1881)
Aporia larraldei (Oberthür, 1876)
Aporia lemoulti (Bernardi, 1944)
Aporia leucodice (Eversmann, 1843) – Himalayan blackvein
Aporia lhamo (Oberthür, 1893)
Aporia martineti (Oberthür, 1884)
Aporia monbeigi (Oberthür, 1917)
Aporia nabellica (Boisduval, 1836) – dusky blackvein
Aporia nishimurai Koiwaya, 1989
Aporia oberthuri (Leech, 1890)
Aporia potanini Alphéraky, 1889
Aporia procris Leech, 1890
Aporia signiana Sugiyama, 1994
Aporia tayiensis Yoshino, 1995
Aporia tsinglingica (Verity, 1911)
Aporia uedai Koiwaya, 1989

References

Brower, Andrew V. Z. "Aporia Hübner 1819". The Tree of Life Web Project. Archived from the original on 14 March 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2010.