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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows (Pieridae) » Whites (Pierinae) » Cabbage Whites, Checkered Whites, Albatrosses (Pierini) » Checkered Whites (Pontia) » Checkered White - Hodges#4193 (Pontia protodice)
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Which white? - Pontia protodice
Copyright © 2007 Tom Bentley

Which white? - Pontia protodice
Saguaro NP, Arizona, USA
March 13, 2007
Either a Pontia protodice or P. sisymbrii. Not familiar with the species.
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Contributed by Tom Bentley on 31 March, 2007 - 10:27pm
Last updated 10 May, 2011 - 2:37am

This is a Checkered White
Pontia protodice. Winter individuals tend to run small with stronger patterning. I don't believe that P. sisybrii can be found so low as Saguaro NP, but could be mistaken. Generally it is a butterfly of the western mountains where winters are cold.

Moved from Spring White.
… David J. Ferguson, 10 May, 2011 - 2:37am login or register to post comments

Spring White, Pontia sisymbrii
Looks like the one in Butterflies through Binoculars The West, only yours is better. I don't know these guys, but do know P. protodice, and this isn't that.
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