Original scientific paper
Leptidea reali REISSINGER 1989 (=lorkovicii REAL 1988), a new European species (Lepid., Pieridae)
Zdravko Lorković
; Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
After a thorough analysis of the original description of Leptidea reali REISSINGER 1989 (=lorkovicii REAL 1988) as a new species from the eastern Pyrenees, described by J. Real five years ago, it is now characterised in more detail. The new species is distinctly different from L. sinapis, and may be accurately identified by greatly prolonged genitalia alone. It is found not only in the Pyrenees but also in Croatia and some adjoining countries, as well as in Sweden, Poland, and Ukraina, where it occurs simpatrically with sinapis, predominantly in lowlands, with Lathyrus pratensis as the main host plant. Premating sexual isolation has been experimentally confirmed.
Keywords
Leptidea reali; sinapis; lactea; melanogyna; specific characteristics; genitalia; variability; host plants; habitat; distribution; sexual isolation; courtship; semiartificial copulation; Croatia; Slovenia; Spain; Pyrenees; Sweden; Poland; Ukraine
Hrčak ID:
296243
URI
Publication date:
30.6.1993.
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