Pontia

Pontia is a genus of pierid butterflies. They are found in the Holarctic, but are rare in Europe and central to eastern North America, and a few species range into the Afrotropics. Several East Asian species once placed here are now more often split off in Sinopieris. Like the closely related genus Pieris, they are commonly called whites.

Pontia
Pontia edusa edusa on Knautia arvensis
near Antsiferovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Tribe: Pierini
Genus: Pontia
Fabricius, 1807
Species

Around a dozen, see text

Synonyms
  • Mancipium Hübner, [1807]
  • Synchloe Hübner, 1818
  • Mancipium Stephens, 1828
  • Parapieris de Nicéville, 1897
  • Leucochloë Röber, [1907]
  • Leucochloe Röber, [1907]
  • Pontieuchloia Verity, 1929

Species

Listed alphabetically:[1]

Some other species are occasionally placed here, but alternatively in other genera. Pontia extensa may belong in Pieris, while a number of other species from the China region are often split off in Sinopieris:

  • Pontia davidis (Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan)
  • Pontia dubernardi (Gansu, Nanshan, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan)
  • Pontia kozlovi (Xinjiang)
  • Pontia sherpae (Nepal)
  • Pontia stoetzneri (Sichuan, Yunnan)
  • Pontia venata (Ta-chien-lu, at altitude 3000 m)

References
  1. Pontia funet.fi

Further reading
  • Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)
  • Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
  • James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
  • Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
  • Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)


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