Pieridae

Pohl, Greg, Anweiler, Gary, Schmidt, Christian & Kondla, Norbert, 2010, An annotated list of the Lepidoptera of Alberta, Canada, ZooKeys 38 (38), pp. 1-549 : 170

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.38.383

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3789046

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Pieridae
status

 

50. Pieridae View in CoL View at ENA – whites, marbles, and sulphurs

Members of this family are medium-sized butterflies without tails; most have predominantly white, yellow, or orange wings. Th e hindwings have two anal veins. Androconial scales are usually present on the dorsal wing surfaces. Forelegs do not have an epiphysis on the tibia. Larvae feed on a variety of plants.

Approximately 1000 species of Pieridae are known worldwide. Seventy-three species are known from North America, 23 of which are reported from AB.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Pieridae