Pseudopontia paradoxa

Pseudopontia paradoxa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Pseudopontia
Species:	P. paradoxa
Binomial name
Pseudopontia paradoxa (Felder, 1869)
Synonyms
Globiceps paradoxa Felder & Felder, 1869 Pseudopontia calabarica Plötz, 1870 Pseudopontia cepheus Ehrmann, 1894

Pseudopontia paradoxa is a species of butterfly found only in wet forests of tropical Africa. It was traditionally thought to be the only species (monotypic) in the genus Pseudopontia and the subfamily Pseudopontiinae.

The larvae feed on Pseuderanthemum tunicatum, Rhopalopilia marquesii and Rhopalopilia pallens.^[1]

References

1. Afrotropical Butterflies: File D – Pieridae – Subfamily Pseudopontiinae

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 10

Sources

• Plötz, C. (1870) Pseudopontia Calabarica n. gen. et n. sp. Stettiner Entomologischer Zeitung, 31, 348–349, 1 pl.
• Felder, R. (1869) [no title]. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques, 1, 30–31.
• Felder, R. (1870) Gonophlebia (Globiceps), Paradoxa (Felder). Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques, 1, 95.
• Dixey, F.A. (1923) Pseudopontia paradoxa: its affinities, mimetic relations, and geographical races. Proceedings of the Entomological Society (London), lxi–lxvii +plate B.
• Mitter, K.T., Larsen, T.B., et al. (2011). The butterfly subfamily Pseudopontiinae is not monobasic: marked genetic diversity and morphology reveal three new species of Pseudopontia (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Systematic Entomology 36: 139–163. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2010.00549.x

External links

• Pseudopontiinae, TOL
• Pseudopontia, funet
• [1], BOLD