Pieridae
Prioneris thestylis (Doubleday, 1842)
Prioneris thestylis (Doubleday, 1842)
Prioneris thestylis, the spotted sawtooth, is a small Pieridae butterfly found in India and Southeast Asia.
Prioneris philonome (Boisduval, 1836)
Prioneris philonome (Boisduval, 1836)
Prioneris philonome, the redspot sawtooth, is a Pieridae butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm, described in 1836.
Pinacopteryx eriphia (Godart, 1819)
Pinacopteryx eriphia (Godart, 1819)
Pinacopteryx eriphia, the zebra white, is the only species in the African pierid butterfly genus Pinacopteryx.
Ixias pyrene (Linnaeus, 1764)
Ixias pyrene (Linnaeus, 1764)
Ixias pyrene is a butterfly found in Sri Lanka and peninsular India, with distinct seasonal forms and coloration.
Ixias marianne (Cramer, 1779)
Ixias marianne (Cramer, 1779)
Ixias marianne, the white orange tip, is a species found across parts of South Asia with seasonally variable traits and larvae feeding on Capparis grandis.
Perrhybris pamela (Stoll, 1780)
Perrhybris pamela (Stoll, 1780)
Perrhybris pamela is a sexually dichromatic Pieridae butterfly found across Central and South America.
Appias libythea (Fabricius, 1775)
Appias libythea (Fabricius, 1775)
This is a detailed morphological description of wet- and dry-season broods of Appias libythea by sex.
Appias albina (Boisduval, 1836)
Appias albina (Boisduval, 1836)
Appias albina is a butterfly that resembles Appias paulina, with distinct distinguishing features and three known Drypetes food plants.
Appias indra (Moore, 1858)
Appias indra (Moore, 1858)
Appias indra is a butterfly species with distinct wet- and dry-season brood forms, feeding on two Putranjivaceae plant species.
Appias lyncida (Cramer, 1779)
Appias lyncida (Cramer, 1779)
Appias lyncida, the chocolate albatross, is a seasonally dimorphic butterfly found across South and East Asia.
Appias nero (Fabricius, 1793)
Appias nero (Fabricius, 1793)
The orange albatross (Appias nero) is a Pieridae butterfly found across parts of South and Southeast Asia, with a subspecies in India.
Appias paulina (Cramer, 1777)
Appias paulina (Cramer, 1777)
Appias paulina is a common Pieridae butterfly found across the Indo-Pacific, with a 50 mm wingspan whose larvae feed on three plant species.
Appias lalage (Doubleday, 1842)
Appias lalage (Doubleday, 1842)
Appias lalage (Doubleday, 1842) has distinct appearance traits split by sex and across wet, intermediate, and dry seasonal forms.
Appias zarinda (Boisduval, 1836)
Appias zarinda (Boisduval, 1836)
Appias zarinda, the eastern orange albatross, is a Pieridae butterfly found in Indonesia with four described subspecies.
Glutophrissa drusilla (Cramer, 1777)
Glutophrissa drusilla (Cramer, 1777)
Glutophrissa drusilla (Florida white) is a Pieridae butterfly found in parts of the Americas, with distinct seasonal forms.
Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a black-veined translucent white butterfly found across Eurasia.
Aporia leucodice (Eversmann, 1843)
Aporia leucodice (Eversmann, 1843)
Aporia leucodice, the Himalayan blackvein, is a mid-large Pieridae butterfly found in India.
Aporia agathon (Gray, 1831)
Aporia agathon (Gray, 1831)
Aporia agathon is a black-marked butterfly with three known forms, found across the sub-Himalayan region.
Mylothris agathina (Cramer, 1779)
Mylothris agathina (Cramer, 1779)
Mylothris agathina, the common dotted border, is a sub-Saharan African butterfly with distinctively marked white-yellow wings.
Mylothris rueppellii (Koch, 1865)
Mylothris rueppellii (Koch, 1865)
Mylothris rueppellii is a butterfly species found across multiple countries in sub-Saharan Africa, living in forest and wooded savanna habitats.
Mylothris chloris (Fabricius, 1775)
Mylothris chloris (Fabricius, 1775)
Mylothris chloris is a Pieridae butterfly found across much of sub-Saharan Africa, with larvae feeding on several plant genera.
Neophasia menapia (Felder & Felder, 1859)
Neophasia menapia (Felder & Felder, 1859)
Neophasia menapia, the pine white, is a Pieridae butterfly found in western North America that breeds on conifers.
Neophasia terlooii Behr, 1869
Neophasia terlooii Behr, 1869
Neophasia terlooii, the Chiricahua white, is a North American Pieridae butterfly that lives in Pinaceae conifer forests.
Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793)
Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793)
Belenois aurota is a small to medium migratory Pieridae butterfly found in South Asia and much of Africa.
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