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Pieris ergane (Mountain Small White)

Synonyms: Artogeia ergane; Papilio ergane (homotypic); Pieris ergane carmelae; Pieris ergane gallia; Pieris ergane lucieni

Wikipedia Abstract

Pieris ergane (mountain small white) is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Transcaucasia. The length of the forewings is 19–24 mm. Adults are on wing from April to September in two to three generations The larvae feed on Aethionema saxatile and Aethionema orbiculatum.
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Prey / Diet

Aethionema saxatile[1]

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0