藍粉蝶屬

藍粉蝶屬（學名：Pseudopontia，英文俗名：Frail White; Ghost）是粉蝶科藍粉蝶亞科（學名：Pseudopontiinae）的唯一一屬Braby, M., R. Vila, and N. E. Pierce. 2006. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea): higher classification and biogeography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 147(2):239-275.。共有5個物種，分佈於埃塞俄比亞界，塞拉利昂至贊比亞一帶Brower, Andrew V. Z. 2011. Pseudopontiinae Reuter 1896. Pseudopontia Plötz 1870. the Frail Whites, or Ghosts. Version 20 March 2011 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Pseudopontia/12214/2011.03.20  in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/  。幼蟲的寄主為檀香目鐵青樹科（Olacaceae）植物。

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 文獻 
21世紀
 Wahlberg, N., Rota, J., Braby, M. F., Pierce, N. P. & Wheat, C. W. 2014: Revised systematics and higher classification of pierid butterflies (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) based on molecular data. Zoologica Scripta 43: 641-650. doi:10.1111/zsc.12075 
 Heikkilä, M., Kaila, L., Mutanen, M., Peña, C., & Wahlberg, N. (2012, March). Cretaceous origin and repeated tertiary diversification of the redefined butterflies. In Proc. R. Soc. B (Vol. 279, No. 1731, pp. 1093-1099). The Royal Society.
 , 2011: The butterfly subfamily Pseudopontiinae is not monobasic: marked genetic diversity and morphology reveal three new species of Pseudopontia (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Systematic Entomology 36 (1): 139-163. 

 Larsen, T. B. 2005 Butterflies of West Africa. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books.
 , 1870: Stett. ent. Ztg 31:348, pl.2, fig. a-f
 Braby, M. F. 2005. Provisional checklist of genera of the Pieridae (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Zootaxa 832:1–16.
19-20世紀
 Dixey, F.A. 1923. Pseudopontia paradoxa: its affinities, mimetic relations, and geographical races. Proceedings of the Entomological Society (London), lxi–lxvii + plate B.
 Felder, R. 1869. [no title]. Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques, 1, 30–31.
 Felder, R. 1870. Gonophlebia (Globiceps), Paradoxa (Felder). Petites Nouvelles Entomologiques, 1, 95.

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