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  | |
| 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
- 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.
- 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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