Pontia
Butterfly genus in family Pieridae / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Pontia | |
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Pontia edusa edusa on Knautia arvensis near Antsiferovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Tribe: | Pierini |
Genus: | Pontia Fabricius, 1807 |
Species | |
Around a dozen, see text | |
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