Pieris angelika Eitschberger, 1984 is a animal in the Pieridae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Pieris angelika Eitschberger, 1984 (Pieris angelika Eitschberger, 1984)
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Pieris angelika Eitschberger, 1984

Pieris angelika Eitschberger, 1984

Pieris angelika is a cold-climate Arctic white butterfly found in Alaska and north-western Canada, with a possible future name change.

Family
Genus
Pieris
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Pieris angelika Eitschberger, 1984

Pieris angelika Eitschberger, 1984, commonly known as the Arctic white, is a cold-climate butterfly belonging to the family Pieridae. Its main distribution spans north-western Canada, including Yukon, the Northwest Territories, and north-western British Columbia, as well as Alaska. Its current scientific taxonomic name may be changed in the future, because the species had already been described and named before 1983.

Photo: (c) Walter Siegmund, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · cc-by-sa

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Pieridae Pieris

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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