title: Leptidea duponcheli
text: # Leptidea duponcheli
  
  Leptidea duponcheli, the Eastern wood white, is a butterfly found in the Palearctic (South Europe, Asia Minor, Balkans, Iran) that belongs to the whites family.
  
  ## Subspecies
  
  * Leptidea duponcheli duponcheli
  * Leptidea duponcheli lorkovici (Pfeiffer, 1932) turkisch Nordsyrien
  * Leptidea duponcheli maiae Alberti, 1969 Armenia, Greater Caucasus.
  * Leptidea duponcheli vartiani Gross & Ebert, 1975 Iran
  
  ## Description from Seitz
  
  L. duponcheli Stgr. (27 g), from South France, the eastern districts of South Europe, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Persia, differs from sinapis in the marking of the underside, as shown in the figure. — In the summer-form aestiva Stgr. (27 g) the upperside is feebly, the underside more strongly yellow, the latter being without markings.
  
  ## Biology
  
  The larva feeds on Onobrychis, Leguminosae.
  
  