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Green Veined White or Mountain Green Veined White?

Description:

Pieris napi or Pieris bryoniae? Feeding on geranium sp.

Habitat:

Alpine pasture, altitude 900 ASL.



1 species ID suggestions

tmvdh
tmvdh 11 months ago
None
Pieris napi

10 Comments

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 11 months ago

W,M. thanks for your comment, and thank you Thorsten for confirming the ID. I'll update the spotting.

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 months ago

Fantastic!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 11 months ago

Great spotting... all the way.. They are such small and in seen in quick flight... they are tough to spotting...

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 11 months ago

Thanks Satyen!

SatyenM
SatyenM 11 months ago

Nice pic!

DanielePralong
DanielePralong 12 months ago

Merci bayucca! We'll go with the most likely, Pieris napi.

bayucca
bayucca 12 months ago

Tricky one. I think it is Pieris napi not Bryonis. Bryonis (in your case it must be the male) should usually (what ever this means) be on higher altitudes. Your 900 m looks for me the lowest level, possible but likely?? Location would match for both. The apical markings look in my eyes also more like Napi. In Bryonis the markings are usually a little bit stronger, but this is not a criteria for exclusion or inclusion.

Cerniat (FR), Fribourg - Freiburg, Switzerland

Lat: 46.66, Long: 7.20

Spotted on May 25, 2012
Submitted on May 27, 2012

Reference

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