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Mesapia Gray, 1856
Mesapia Gray, 1856; List Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1: 92, TS: Pieris peloria Hewitson
Mesapia, Pieridae Holarcticae [Heiner Ziegler]
Mesapia ; Winhard, 2000, Butterflies of the world, 10: 15

Mesapia peloria (Hewitson, [1853])
W.China. See [About maps] Pieris peloria Hewitson, [1853]; Ill. exot. Butts 1 (7): [8], pl. [4], f. 15-16
Mesapia peloria ; [EBW]; [MRS, 255]
Kukunoor, Tsinghai Aporia lama Alphéraky, 1887; in Romanoff, Mem. lép. 3: 404
M. p. grayi O. Bang-Haas, 1934
Gansu Mesapia peloria grayi O. Bang-Haas, 1934; Ent. Z. 48: 16
Mesapia peloria grayi ; [MRS, 255]
M. p. leechi O. Bang-Haas, 1934
W.Sichuan Mesapia peloria leechi O. Bang-Haas, 1934; Ent. Z. 48: 16
Mesapia peloria leechi ; [MRS, 255]
M. p. tibetensis D'Abrera, 1990²
SE.Tibet
M. p. minima Huang, 1998
NW.Tibet (Xiangangjiang Mts.) Mesapia peloria minima Huang, 1998; Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 41: 276, pl. 2. f. 7a-f, 8a-f, TL: Maojialia - Darwa lake, 4800-5200m


18.7.2008 (1)

References:
[About maps]
Warning! The maps are automaticly generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.
[EBW]
Smart, Paul, 1976; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0 600 31381 6
[Heiner Ziegler]
Switzerland / Schweiz; www.pieris.ch
[LAMAS-NEO]
Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)
[MRS]
Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2
[²]
This may require parentheses or not. I don't have the necessary information for this taxon.


Some related literature:
Gray, 1856
List of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Papilionidae List Spec. lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1: 106pp
Hewitson, [1853]
Illustrations of new species of exoctic Butterflies selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson. 1. (1851-1856) Ill. exot. Butts 1 (1): [19-20],[67-68],[77-78], pl. [10],[34],[39] (1852), (2): [57-62], pl. [29-31] (1852), (3): [5-6],[21-22],[79-80], pl. [3],[11],[40] (1852), (4): [63-66],[81-82], pl. [32-33],[41] (1852), (5): [11-12],[113-114],[117-118], pl. [6],[57],[59] (1853), (6): [23-24],[69-70],[115-116], pl. [12],[35],[58] (1853), (7): [7-8],[95-96],[99-100], pl. [4],[48],[50] (1853), (8): [9-10],[101-102],[119- 120], pl. [5],[51],[60] (1853), (9): [13-14],[25-26],[83-84], pl. [7],[13],[42] (1854), (10): [87-90],[97-98], pl. [44-45],[49] (1854), (11): [15-16],[27-28], pl. [8],[14] (1854), (12/13): [29-36],[51-54],[103-104], pl. [15-18],[36-37],[52] (1855), (14): [37-40],[105-106], pl. [19-20],[53] (1855), (15): [41-44],[75-76], pl. [21-22],[38] (1855), (16): [1-2],[45-46],[85-86], pl. [1],[23],[43] (1855), (17): [3-4],[17-18], pl. [2],[9] (1856), (18): [47-50],[107-110], pl. [24-25],[54-55] (1856), (19): [51-52],[111-112], pl. [26],[56] (1856), (20): [53-56],[91-94],[121-124], pl. [27-28],[46-47] (1856)
Huang, 1998
Five New Butterflies from N. W. Tibet Neue Entomologische Nachrichten, 41: 271-283
Winhard, 2000
Pieridae I Butterflies of the world, 10: (1) 40pp, (2) 48pls


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