Gonepteryx (Leach 1815), Brimstones ⇒ Taxonomy and Distribution of Genus

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Taxonomy of Genus Gonepteryx Leach, 1815
Brimstones

Class	Insecta Linnaeus, 1758 Insects, True insects	4179 190570 2444470	Families Genera Species
Subclass	Pterygota Lang, 1888 Winged insects	3816 189502 2439455	Families Genera Species
Infraclass	Neoptera van der Wulp, 1890 Modern Wing-folding insects	3399 186457 2415487	Families Genera Species
Superorder	Holometabola Heider, 1889 Holometabolous Insects	1891 142849 2048615	Families Genera Species
Order	Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Butterflies, Lepidopterans, Moths	322 33641 568299	Families Genera Species
Suborder	Glossata Fabricius, 1775 Modern butterflies and moths	208 32654 567261	Families Genera Species
Infraorder	Heteroneura Tillyard, 1918	197 32461 565431	Families Genera Species
Division	Ditrysia Borner, 1925 Butterflies, Moths, Skippers	186 32290 560864	Families Genera Species
Section	Cossina Herrich-Schäffer, 1856	74 20388 404639	Families Genera Species
Subsection	Bombyces Scopoli, 1763	66 18154 371101	Families Genera Species
Superfamily	Papilionoidea Latreille, 1802 Butterflies, Skippers, True butterflies	13 3266 144998	Families Genera Species
Family	Pieridae Duponchel, 1835 And Sulphurs, Brimstones, Orange-tips, Orangetips, Sulfurs	230 13433	Genera Species
Subfamily	Coliadinae Swainson, 1827 Orange Tip Butterflies, Oranges, Sulfurs, Sulphurs	22 3325	Genera Species
Tribe	Gonepterygini Duponchel, 1835	3 173	Genera Species
Genus	Gonepteryx Leach, 1815 Brimstones	161	Species

Subnodes of Gonepteryx Leach, 1815

Species	Gonepteryx acuminata C. & R. Felder, 1862
Species	Gonepteryx alba Lempke, 1932
Species	Gonepteryx albescens Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx albula Verity, 1948
Species	Gonepteryx alvinda Blanchier, 1871
Species	Gonepteryx amintha Blanchard, 1871 Orange Brimstone	6	Subspecies
Species	Gonepteryx amnintha Blanchard, 1871
Species	Gonepteryx amurensis Graeser, 1888
Species	Gonepteryx antonia Butler, 1885
Species	Gonepteryx aspasia Ménétriés, 1858 Lesser Brimstone	6	Subspecies
Species	Gonepteryx aurantiaca Lempke, 1932
Species	Gonepteryx balearica Bubacek, 1920
Species	Gonepteryx bivoltina Mell, 1951
Species	Gonepteryx britannica Oberthür, 1909
Species	Gonepteryx burmensis Tytler, 1926
Species	Gonepteryx canicularis Retzius, 1783
Species	Gonepteryx carnea Caruel, 1947
Species	Gonepteryx carnipennis
Species	Gonepteryx cerulescens Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx chinensis Verity, 1909
Species	Gonepteryx chitralensis Moore, 1905
Species	Gonepteryx chritralensis
Species	Gonepteryx citrina Sheljuzhko, 1925
Species	Gonepteryx cleobule Hübner, 1831 Canary Brimstone, Canary Island Brimstone
Species	Gonepteryx cleodoxa Tutt, 1896
Species	Gonepteryx cleopatra Linnaeus, 1767 Cleopatra, Cleopatra butterfly	18	Subspecies
Species	Gonepteryx concolor Mell, 1939
Species	Gonepteryx dalmatica Verity, 1909
Species	Gonepteryx decora Oberthür, 1909
Species	Gonepteryx dentata Caruel, 1946
Species	Gonepteryx ecclipsis Linnaeus, 1767
Species	Gonepteryx erubescens Du Bois-Reymond, 1920
Species	Gonepteryx europaeus Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx eversi Rehnelt, 1974
Species	Gonepteryx farinosa Zeller, 1847 Chitral Brimstone, Powdered Brimstone	3	Subspecies
Species	Gonepteryx favinosa
Species	Gonepteryx filia Röber, 1905
Species	Gonepteryx fiorino Turati, 1930
Species	Gonepteryx flavescens Lempke, 1936
Species	Gonepteryx formosana Fruhstorfer, 1908
Species	Gonepteryx gerhardi Derenne, 1923
Species	Gonepteryx gilgitica Tytler, 1926
Species	Gonepteryx gravesi Huggins, 1956
Species	Gonepteryx grimardi Dufrane, 1947
Species	Gonepteryx guttifera Mell, 1939
Species	Gonepteryx himalayensis Manders, 1890
Species	Gonepteryx hoefnageli Bryk, 1922
Species	Gonepteryx impunctata Bryk, 1940
Species	Gonepteryx infradestrigata Lempke, 1954
Species	Gonepteryx insularis Verity, 1909
Species	Gonepteryx intermedia Tutt, 1896
Species	Gonepteryx inversa Hannemann, 1916
Species	Gonepteryx italica Gerhard, 1882
Species	Gonepteryx iwateanus Murayama, 1964
Species	Gonepteryx limonia Mell, 1951
Species	Gonepteryx maderensis C. Felder, 1863 Madeira Brimstone, Madeiran Brimstone
Species	Gonepteryx maerula
Species	Gonepteryx mahaguru Gistel, 1857 Lesser Brimstone	2	Subspecies
Species	Gonepteryx major Verity, 1905
Species	Gonepteryx majorina Verity, 1948
Species	Gonepteryx mascula Verity, 1909
Species	Gonepteryx massiliensis Foulquier, 1899
Species	Gonepteryx matsakii Kattulas & Koutsaftikis, 1976
Species	Gonepteryx mauretanica Röber, 1907
Species	Gonepteryx maxima Butler, 1885	2	Subspecies
Species	Gonepteryx meridionalis Röber, 1907
Species	Gonepteryx miljanowskii Nekrutenko, 1966
Species	Gonepteryx minor
Species	Gonepteryx murayamae Nekrutenko, 1973
Species	Gonepteryx nana Wnukowsky, 1935
Species	Gonepteryx nepalensis Doubleday, 1847
Species	Gonepteryx nigrescens Heckler, 1923
Species	Gonepteryx nigriapicata Reuss, 1910
Species	Gonepteryx niphonica Verity, 1909
Species	Gonepteryx ochracea Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx ochreata Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx orientalis Röber, 1907
Species	Gonepteryx pallida Hannemann, 1916
Species	Gonepteryx palmae Stamm, 1963 La Palma Brimstone
Species	Gonepteryx palmata Turati, 1921
Species	Gonepteryx petronelli de Freina, 1977
Species	Gonepteryx progressiva Geest, 1902
Species	Gonepteryx pultaina Doi, 1932
Species	Gonepteryx punctillata Verity, 1948
Species	Gonepteryx rhamni Linnaeus, 1758 Brimstone, Brimstone butterfly, Common Brimstone	15	Subspecies
Species	Gonepteryx rhamnoides Derenne, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx rosea Linstow, 1907
Species	Gonepteryx rosei Gross, 1973
Species	Gonepteryx roseitincta Debauche, 1928
Species	Gonepteryx roseodecora Caruel, 1947
Species	Gonepteryx rubescens Gillmer, 1908
Species	Gonepteryx secunda Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx subtusrhamni Bryk, 1940
Species	Gonepteryx sulphurea Peschke, 1934
Species	Gonepteryx sulphureus Petiver, 1710
Species	Gonepteryx taiwana Paravicini, 1913
Species	Gonepteryx taurica Staudinger, 1881
Species	Gonepteryx tertia Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx tianshanica Nekrutenko, 1970
Species	Gonepteryx transiens Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx tsinglingshani
Species	Gonepteryx urania Butler, 1865 ⇒ Dercas lycorias
Species	Gonepteryx vallettai Howarth, 1977
Species	Gonepteryx variegata
Species	Gonepteryx virgo Röber, 1907
Species	Gonepteryx virida Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx viridissima Verity, 1919
Species	Gonepteryx zaneka Moore, 1865
Species	Gonepteryx zanekoides de Nicéville, 1897

Synonyms

Earina (Speyer, 1839)

Gompeteryx (Wood, 1833)

Goniapteryx (Westwood, 1840)

Gonioptera (Moore, 1905)

Goniopteryx (Burmeister, 1878)

Gonoptera (Billberg, 1820)

Gonopteryx (Schatz, 1886)

Rhodocera (Boisduval & Leconte, 1830)

Native, vernacular names and spellings of Gonepteryx

English

Brimstones

Distribution of Gonepteryx Leach, 1815

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, North Korea, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Uzbekistan, Venezuela

Found in fossile formations

Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Rott Formation, Sarka Formation

Links, sources and further information

Gonepteryx at artfakta.se
Gonepteryx at dyntaxa.se
Gonepteryx at gbif.org
Gonepteryx at irmng.org