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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) » Pieris » Margined White - Hodges#4195 (Pieris marginalis)
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Margined White?? - Pieris marginalis - female
Copyright © 2010 sarinole

Margined White?? - Pieris marginalis - Female
UBC Botanical Garden, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
August 13, 2010
Like most whites, this one constantly flitted without stopping for more than a second. Its wing markings seem to resemble those of the margined white.
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Contributed by sarinole on 18 August, 2010 - 8:12pm
Last updated 18 August, 2010 - 10:51pm

Looks like Margined White is correct
Difficult to be certain from these photos, but the pattern is more like P. marginalis, and it seems to lack the dark tips of the wing that are always present on female P. rapae and so often missing on P. marginalis.

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… David J. Ferguson, 18 August, 2010 - 10:46pm login or register to post comments

?
Never heard of a "margined white." This looks like a female Cabbage White to me.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 August, 2010 - 9:44pm login or register to post comments

 
The Margined White (Pieris ma
The Margined White (Pieris marginalis)is common in the NW. Cabbage whites are common here in Texas and have different markings than those on this butterfly. Then again, you may very well be right.
… sarinole, 18 August, 2010 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

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