Name

Pieris

garden white

Framing

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Crustacea

Class: Hexapoda

Subclass: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Family: Pieridae

Genus: Pieris

Habitat

Land. Vegetation

Feeding

Adult nectarivorous; herbivorous larvae

Distribution

America, Africa, Asia and Europe

Conservation status

Genus with about thirty species. As in other insects, its dangers are insecticides and habitat loss.

Additional information

Diurnal butterfly. Hypognathous head and sucking-maxillary mouthparts in adult. Two pairs of white scaly wings with some black spots. Larvae eruciform with chewing mouthparts. Claviform antennae.