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White Butterflies (Pieridae): Species & Identification

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Common Brimstone

Gonepteryx rhamni (Linnaeus, 1758)

The common brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) is a long-lived Palearctic butterfly in the Pieridae family.

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Peak White

Pontia callidice (Hübner, 1800)

Pontia callidice is a butterfly that lives in high-altitude alpine meadows above the tree line across Eurasia and China.

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African Meadow White

Pontia helice (Linnaeus, 1764)

Pontia helice, the meadow white, is a southern African pierid butterfly whose larvae feed on specific host plants.

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Psyche

Leptosia nina (Fabricius, 1793)

Leptosia nina, the wandering snowflake, is a butterfly found across South and East Asia, with larvae feeding on capers and related plants.

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Great Southern White

Ascia monuste (Linnaeus, 1764)

Ascia monuste, the great southern white, is the only species in the Ascia Pieridae butterfly genus, a migratory species found across the Ame…

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Plain Orange-tip

Colotis aurora (Cramer, 1780)

This is a detailed morphological description of the butterfly Colotis aurora, describing male and female wing patterns and body features.

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Greenish Black-tip

Elphinstonia charlonia (Donzel, 1842)

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Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur

Colias alexandra Edwards, 1863

Colias alexandra is a butterfly species with distinct wing coloration and pattern differences between sexes and related species.

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Dimera Sulphur

Colias dimera Doubleday, 1847

The Dimera sulphur (Colias dimera) is a common Pieridae butterfly found in the Neotropical realm’s Tropical Andes.

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