Do the sibling species of small whites, Leptidea sinapis and L. reali (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) differ in habitat preferences?

Biologia - Section Zoology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 943-951

  Beneš, Jiří ^a,b   Konvička, Martin ^a,b   Vrabec, Vladimír ^c   Zámečník, Jaroslav ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d NONE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Butterfly conservation; Calcareous grasslands; Central europe; Cryptic species; Dismorphinae; Distribution atlas; Quarries

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; LEPTIDEA; LEPTIDEA REALI; LEPTIDEA SINAPIS; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; PIERINAE; SINAPIS;

EID: 0345802786     PISSN: 13356380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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