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Pontia
Pontia is a genus of pierid butterflies. They are found in the Holarctic, but are rare in Europe and central to eastern North America, and a few species range into the Afrotropics. Several East Asian species once placed here are now more often split off in Sinopieris. Like the closely related genus Pieris, they are commonly called whites.
13 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Checkered White
speciesPontia protodice
Eastern Bath White
speciesPontia edusa
Bath White
speciesPontia daplidice
Western White
speciesPontia occidentalis
Becker's White
speciesPontia beckerii
African Meadow White
speciesPontia helice
Spring White
speciesPontia sisymbrii
Peak White
speciesPontia callidice
Desert White
speciesPontia glauconome
Lesser Bath White
speciesPontia chloridice
East African Meadow White
speciesPontia johnstonii
Pontia freyeri
speciesPontia freyeri
Small Meadow White
speciesPontia distorta
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 59122.