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The Pierinae are a large subfamily of pierid butterflies. The subfamily is one of several clades of butterflies often referred to as the whites.

Museum specimens

Specimen records
11
Family
Pieridae
Collections
UNM, UMNH
Recorded in
United States, Guatemala

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Pieridae
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Butterfly May 2008-3a.jpg
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Commons category
Pierinae
topic's main category
Category:Pierinae
taxon name
Pierinae
taxon rank
subfamily
taxon common name
Whites
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The Pierinae are a large subfamily of pierid butterflies. The subfamily is one of several clades of butterflies often referred to as the whites.

==Species== It includes the following species (additional species can be found under the tribes listed in the adjacent box): Anthocharis belia – Morocco orange tip Anthocharis cethura – desert orangetip Anthocharis cethura catalina – Catalina orangetip Anthocharis damone – eastern orange tip Anthocharis euphenoides – Provence orange tip Anthocharis gruneri – Grüner's orange tip Anthocharis julia – southern Rocky Mountain orangetip Anthocharis lanceolata – gray marble Anthocharis limonea – Mexican orangetip Anthocharis midea – falcate orangetip Anthocharis sara – Sara's orangetip Anthocharis sara thoosa – southwestern orangetip Anthocharis scolymus – yellow tip Anthocharis stella – Stella orangetip Anthocharis stella browningi – Utah Stella orangetip Euchloe belemia – green-striped white Euchloe charlonia – greenish black-tip Euchloe crameri – western dappled white Euchloe olympia – Olympia marble Phoebis avellaneda – red-splashed sulphur Pieris angelika – Arctic white Pieris brassicae – large white Pieris marginalis – margined white Pieris marginalis reicheli – Reichel's margined white Pieris oleracea – mustard white Pieris oleracea frigida – Newfoundland white Pieris rapae – small white Pieris virginiensis – West Virginia white butterfly

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pierinae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.