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News channel or source: https://bioengineer.org/hidden-butterfly-diversity-uncovered-new-subspecies-of-wood-white-from-northern-iran/

Published on: Sunday 18 October 2026

DNA barcoding has revealed a genetically distinct, previously unrecognized subspecies of the Wood White butterfly, Leptidea sinapis tabarestana, confined to the Alborz mountains of northern Iran.

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