Neophasia menapia

Pine White
male
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Neophasia
Species:	N. menapia
Binomial name
Neophasia menapia (C. & R. Felder, 1859)
Subspecies
N. m. menapia N. m. melanica Scott, 1981 N. m. tehachapina Emmel, Emmel & Mattoon, 1998
Synonyms
Pieris menapia Pieris tau Neophasia nigracosta

The Pine White (Neophasia menapia) is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in western USA and in southern British Columbia.^[1][2]

It is mostly white with black vines and wing bars. Similar to Neophasia terlooii but ranges only overlap in New Mexico.^[1][2]

The wingspan is 42 to 50 millimeters.^[1]

The host plants are Pinus sp., Pseudotsuga taxifolia, Tsuga heterophylla, Abies balsamea, Abies grandis, and Picea sitchensis.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Pine White, Butterflies of Canada
2. ^ ^{a b} Jim P. Brock and Kenn Kaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America. Houghton Mifflin, New York, NY. ISBN 00-618-15312-8
3. ^ Neophasia, funet.fi

External links

• Pine White, Butterflies and Moths of North-America

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