Pieris oleracea frigida

Pieris oleracea frigida, the Newfoundland white, is a subarctic subspecies of the mustard white butterfly.[1][2] It is mostly confined to the Newfoundland area of Canada.

Newfoundland white
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Pieris
Species:
Subspecies:
P. o. frigida
Trinomial name
Pieris oleracea frigida
Scudder, 1861

References

  1. Leboeuf, Michel; Tirant, Stéphane Le (2015-03-19). Papillons et chenilles du Québec et des Maritimes (in French). Éditions Michel Quintin. pp. 123–124. ISBN 978-2-89435-856-6.
  2. Scudder, Samuel Hubbard (1889). The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada: With Special Reference to New England. pp. 1191–1194.


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