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Leptidea morsei (Fenton's Wood White)

Synonyms: Leptidia major (heterotypic); Leptosia morsei (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Leptidea morsei (Fenton’s wood white) is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found from central Europe to Siberia, Ussuri, Korea, northern China and Japan. The habitat consists of damp, grassy vegetation at the sunny edges of woods, in grassy woodland clearings and on regenerating woodland on grassland. They occur almost exclusively in oak forest and mixed deciduous woods. The wingspan is 46–54 mm. Adults are on wing from April to May and again from June to July in two generations per year.
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Infraspecies

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Prey / Diet

Lathyrus niger (Black Pea)[1]
Lathyrus vernus (spring-vetch)[1]
Vicia amoena (Tsuru Fuji Bakama)[1]
Vicia cracca (cow vetch)[1]

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Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0