Leptophobia eleone
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| taxon = Leptophobia eleone
| 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]
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Category:Butterflies described in 1847
Category:Pieridae of South America
Category:Taxa named by Edward Doubleday
Category:Lepidoptera of Ecuador
Category:Lepidoptera of Bolivia
Category:Lepidoptera of Colombia
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