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Pontia occidentalis (Western White)

Wikipedia Abstract

Pontia occidentalis, the western white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Western North America. The wingspan is 38 to 53 millimeters. The host plants are from the Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage) family. The caterpillars eat especially the flowers, buds and fruit. In the north of the range, one generation flies in June and July; in the south two generations fly from May to August.
View Wikipedia Record: Pontia occidentalis

Infraspecies

Pontia occidentalis nelsoni
Pontia occidentalis occidentalis

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.575 inches (.04 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Badlands National Park II 178535 South Dakota, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Pontia protodice (Checkered White)1

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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