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Garden Whites
Pieris
Pieris, the whites or garden whites, is a widespread now almost cosmopolitan genus of butterflies of the family Pieridae. The highest species diversity is in the Palearctic. Many species of this genus have caterpillars which feed on cabbage and other members of the Brassicaceae. The chemical basis of this association with a certain plant group has been studied for over 100 years, and is now known to occur via a number of biochemical adaptations to chemicals...
41 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Small White
speciesPieris rapae
Green-veined White
speciesPieris napi
Large White
speciesPieris brassicae
Indian Cabbage White
speciesPieris canidia
Margined White
speciesPieris marginalis
Southern Small White
speciesPieris mannii
Mustard White
speciesPieris oleracea
Dark-veined White
speciesPieris bryoniae
West Virginia White
speciesPieris virginiensis
Asian Green-veined White
speciesPieris melete
Mountain Small White
speciesPieris ergane
Pieris latouchei
speciesPieris latouchei
Arctic White
speciesPieris angelika
Pieris erutae
speciesPieris erutae
Canary Islands' Large White
speciesPieris cheiranthi
Pieris dulcinea
speciesPieris dulcinea
False Cabbage White
speciesPieris pseudorapae
Krüper's Small White
speciesPieris krueperi
Balkan Green-veined White
speciesPieris balcana
Pieris extensa
speciesPieris extensa
Bowden's White
speciesPieris bowdeni
Pieris venata
speciesPieris venata
Pieris nesis
speciesPieris nesis
Pieris dubernardi
speciesPieris dubernardi
Pieris stoetzneri
speciesPieris stoetzneri
Pieris davidis
speciesPieris davidis
Pieris narina
speciesPieris narina
Moroccan Green-veined White
speciesPieris segonzaci
dusky white
speciesPieris deota
Pieris ochsenheimeri
speciesPieris ochsenheimeri
Pieris rothschildi
speciesPieris rothschildi
Pieris persis
speciesPieris persis
Pieris chumbiensis
speciesPieris chumbiensis
Pieris orientis
speciesPieris orientis
Pieris brassicoides
speciesPieris brassicoides
Pieris turcica
speciesPieris turcica
Pieris euorientis
speciesPieris euorientis
Madeiran Large White
speciesPieris wollastoni
Pieris meckyae
speciesPieris meckyae
Pieris tadjika
speciesPieris tadjika
Pieris wangi
speciesPieris wangi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 55690.