Genus:
Pieris Schrank, 1801 . Favna boica 2 (1) : 152, 161.
Status:
Available Name
Homonyms: 3
Higher classification:
PAPILIONOIDEA : PIERIDAE : PIERINAE : PIERINI
Type-species:
Papilio brassicae Linnaeus , 1758 Systema Naturae (Edn 10) 1 : 467. .
Type-species designation:
by subsequent designation by, Latreille , 1810 Consid. gén. Ordre nat. Anim.
Notes:
Hemming (1967) stated:-
This generic name has been placed by the Commission - in its Opinion 278 on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology as Name No. 704.
Junior name(s):
Andropodum Hübner, 1822: 2-5, 7-9.
Antropodum ; Hübner, 1822: 3.
Danaus Oken, 1815: 723.
Ganoris Dalman, 1816: 61.
Mancipium Hübner, 1806: [1].
Tachyptera Berge, 1842: 19, 92-105.
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