Sinopieris

Sinopieris
S.davidis (top left), S.dubernardi (left, second from bottom) and S.venata (top right) in John Henry Leech's Butterflies from China, Japan and Corea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Pierini
Genus:	Sinopieris Huang, 1995
Species
6, see text

Sinopieris is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. The genus occurs in Gansu, Nepal, Nanshan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet and Yunnan. All six species were originally included in Pieris and subsequently in Pontia.

From Pieris, this genus is most easily (though not entirely reliably) by the venation in the apical area of the forewing. Most Sinopieris species have a suffused grey or blackish post-discal band whereas Pieris usually have a single (males) or a pair (females) of blackish post-discal spots on the forewings, and no trace of any spot or band on the hindwings.

Species

• Sinopieris davidis (Oberthür, 1876) (Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan)
• Sinopieris dubernardi (Oberthür, 1884) (Gansu, Nanshan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan)
• Sinopieris kozlovi (Alpheraky, 1897) (Xinjiang)
• Sinopieris sherpae (Epstein, 1979) (Nepal)
• Sinopieris stoetzneri (Draeseke, 1925) (Sichuan, Yunnan)
• Sinopieris venata (Leech, 1891) (Ta-chien-lu, at altitude 3050 m)

References

Media related to Sinopieris at Wikimedia Commons

External links

• Sinopieris Butterflies & Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species