Pontia
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Subfamily: | Pierinae |
| Tribe: | Pierini |
| Genus: | Pontia Fabricius, 1807 |
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Pontia, commonly called Whites, is a genus of Holarctic pierid butterflies. For other Whites see genus Pieris.
Species
Listed alphabetically.[1]
- Pontia beckerii (Edwards, 1871) – Becker's white, Great Basin white, or sagebrush white
- Pontia callidice (Hübner, 1799-1800) – Peak white
- Pontia chloridice (Hübner, 1808-1813) – Small Bath white
- Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758) – Bath white
- Pontia davidis (Oberthür, 1876) Yunnan may be in Sinopieris
- Pontia distorta (Butler, 1886) – Small meadow white
- Pontia dubernardi (Oberthür, 1884) China may be in Sinopieris
- Pontia edusa (Fabricius, 1777) - Eastern Bath white
- Pontia extensa (Poujade, 1888) West China, Fukien, India may be in Pieris
- Pontia glauconome (Klug, 1829) – Desert (Bath) white
- Pontia helice (Linnaeus, 1764) – Meadow white
- Pontia kozlovi (Alphéraky, 1897) Xinjiang may be in Sinopieris
- Pontia occidentalis (Reakirt, 1866) – Western white
- Pontia protodice (Boisduval & Le Conte, 1830) – Checkered white
- Pontia sherpae Epstein, 1979 Nepal may be in Sinopieris
- Pontia sisymbrii (Boisduval, 1852) – Spring white, California white, or Colorado white
- Pontia stoetzneri (Draeseke, 1924) Yunnan, Sichuan may be in Sinopieris
- Pontia venata (Leech, 1891) Ta-chien-lu, at altitude 3000 m.may be in Sinopieris
Gallery
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Pontia edusa
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Pontia callidice
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Pontia callidice
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Pontia daplidice
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Pontia occidentalis
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Pontia protodice - female
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Pontia protodice - male
References
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External links
Further reading
- Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)
- Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
- James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
- Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
- Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)
External links
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