Leptophobia eleone

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| authority = (Doubleday, 1847)[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/pieridae/pierinae/leptophobia/index.html Leptophobia], Site of Markku Savela

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  • Pieris eleone Doubleday, [1847]
  • Leptophobia eleone ab. ochracea Röber, 1908

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Leptophobia eleone, the silky wanderer or eleone white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found from Colombia to Bolivia. The habitat consists of cloud forests.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20090604210638/http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Andes%20-%20Leptophobia%20eleone.htm Butterflies of the Andes]}}

The larvae feed on Tropaeolum species.[http://caterpillars.unr.edu/lsacat/ecuador/species/pieridae/11854/11854.htm caterpillars.unr.edu]

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:

  • Leptophobia eleone eleone (Colombia)
  • Leptophobia eleone luca Fruhstorfer, 1907 (Ecuador, Bolivia)

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