A dataset of morphological traits of pierid based on <italic>Fauna Sinica</italic>

Abstract

<p indent="0mm">The dataset of morphological traits of pierid based on Fauna Sinica is extracted by a self-developed special tool used for biological morphological features marking after digitizing Fauna Sinicna (INSECTA Vol. 52 Lepidoptera Pieridae). This dataset contains 24 genera, 155 species of Pierididae (177 subspecies), Lepidoptera, Insecta. Each record in this dataset is the extraction of a single morphological characteristic from morphology, measurement, and other morphological description data of different species/subspecies in different genders and various developmental stages, mainly in shape, color, and texture. This dataset provides basic data for the biological research of these pierid groups, such as biogeography and phylogeny, and also provides valuable corpus resources for natural language processing and understanding research.