Neophasia menapia

"Pine white" redirects here. For the other butterfly with this common name, see Catasticta nimbice.
Pine white
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Neophasia
Species: N. menapia
Binomial name
Neophasia menapia
(C. & R. Felder, 1859)
Subspecies
  • N. m. menapia
  • N. m. melanica Scott, 1981
  • N. m. tehachapina Emmel, Emmel & Mattoon, 1998
Synonyms
  • Pieris menapia
  • Pieris tau
  • Neophasia nigracosta

Neophasia menapia, the pine white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the western United States and in southern British Columbia, Canada.[1][2]

It is mostly white with black veins and wing bars. The species is similar to Neophasia terlooii but their ranges only overlap in New Mexico.[1][2]

The wingspan is 42 to 50 millimeters.[1]

The host plants are Pinus species, Pseudotsuga menziesii, Tsuga heterophylla, Abies balsamea, Abies grandis, and Picea sitchensis.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Pine White, Butterflies of Canada
  2. 1 2 Jim P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. ISBN 0618153128
  3. ↑ Neophasia, funet.fi
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