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Desert White Pupa

Pontia glauconome

Description:

small chrysalis, about 1.5 cm in length

Habitat:

spotted on the underside of a henbane plant that I had just ripped out of my desert garden...so the life cycle will continue indoors

Notes:

see spotting of the larvae from 8 days before: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/227...

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6 Comments

Beautiful pupa!

Bernadette S
Bernadette S 10 years ago

Thank you, Gerardo!

Bernadette S
Bernadette S 10 years ago

Thanks again, bayucca! I've updated the spottings. I've got this pupa indoors so hopefully we'll see what emerges. Can you confirm the ID of this white, in case I've got it wrong too: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/238...

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 10 years ago

Congratulations great spot !

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Congrats!!
I would call this one Pontia edusa/daplidice. There are both reported from Egypt and it is not possible to separate them from each other with out the native specimen and DNA. There are still lot of discussions about these species. Even the pupae looks almost identical.

Bernadette S
Bernadette S 10 years ago

my 400th spotting! :-)

Bernadette S
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Bernadette S

Egypt

Spotted on May 17, 2013
Submitted on May 17, 2013

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