Overview
Pierini is a group of butterflies.
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Taxonomy
The Tribe Pierini is a member of the Subfamily Pierinae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Pierini:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Superorder: Amphiesmenoptera
- Order: Lepidoptera
Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies, Moths
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- Family: Lycaenidae
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- Order: Lepidoptera
Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies, Moths
- Superorder: Amphiesmenoptera
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Tribe Pierini is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (13): Anthocharis · Aporia · Appias · Artogeia · Ascia · Belenois · Delias · Elphinstonia · Euchloe · Pieris · Pontia · Tatochila · Zegris
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 530 species and subspecies in the Tribe Pierini.
Genera
Anthocharis
Anthocharis is a genus of the butterfly tribe Anthocharini, in the Pieridae family. These are typically small, white-hued butterflies that have colorful marks just inside the tips of the forewings. The tip colors are usually a red-orange hue, hence the name "Orange Tip". The larvae of these butterfly often consume cruciferous plants containing chemicals called glucosinolates. Species and sub-species belonging to the Anthocharis genus include: [more]
Aporia
Aporia (Ancient Greek: : impasse; lack of resources; puzzlement; embarrassment ) denotes, in philosophy, a philosophical puzzle or state of puzzlement, and, in rhetoric, a rhetorically useful expression of doubt. [more]
Appias
In Roman mythology, Appias was one of the Crinaeae, a naiad who lived in the two fountains outside the temple to Venus Genitrix in the Roman Forum. [more]
Artogeia
Ascia
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Belenois
Delias
Delias is a genus of butterflies. There are about 250 species of Delias, found in South Asia and Australia. Delias group of butterflies are considered as having their evolutionary origins in the Australian region. [more]
Elphinstonia
Euchloe
Euchloe is a genus of pierid butterflies. [more]
Pieris
Shrubs or trees, evergreen [or woody vines in E North America]. Leaves spirally arranged or pseudoverticillate [or in whorls of 3 in NE Asia], petiolate; leaf blade leathery, margin entire to strongly toothed. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, paniculate or racemose. Pedicels ± pubescent and with glandular hairs. Flowers 5-merous. Calyx valvate, abaxially glandular, adaxially pubescent. Corolla white, urceolate to tubular-urceolate, shortly 5-lobed. Stamens included; filaments swollen at base, straight or geniculate; anthers on back with a pair of spurs at anther-filament junction, dehiscing by introrse-terminal and elliptic pores. Ovary superior, with many ovules per locule. Stigma truncate. Capsule loculicidal, with 5 unthickened sutures. Seeds small.[1] [more]
Pontia
Pontia is a genus of pierid butterflies. [more]
Tatochila
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia. [more]
Zegris
At least 31 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Zegris.
More info about the Genus Zegris may be found here.
Footnotes
- Fang Rhui-cheng, Peter F. Stevens "Pieris". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 460. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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