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Pieris virginiensis (West Virginia White)

Synonyms: Lycaena arota virginiensis (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Pieris virginiensis, the West Virginia white, is a relatively common butterfly found in North America in the Great Lakes states, along the Appalachians from New England to Alabama, and in southern Ontario. They are typically found in moist deciduous forests. It has translucent whitish wings of length 4.5–5.5 cm; the hindwing underside has brownish or pale gray scaling along the veins.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Litter Size [1]  92
Wing Span [2]  1.417 inches (.036 m)

Prey / Diet

Cardamine concatenata (Cutleaf Toothwort)[3]
Cardamine diphylla (Broadleaf toothwort)[2]
Cardamine pensylvanica (Pennsylvania bittercress)[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Body size, egg size, and their interspecific relationships with ecological and life history traits in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea, Hesperioidea), Enrique García-Barros, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2000), 70: 251–284
2Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
3Jorrit 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.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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