Mountain Dappled White

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Mountain Dappled White
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Pierinae
Tribe: Anthocharini
Genus: Euchloe
Species: E. simplonia
Binomial name
Euchloe simplonia
(Boisduval, 1878)

The Mountain Dappled White (Euchloe simplonia) is as it name implies a butterfly found in the mountainous regions of Western Europe and Northern Africa. Its main foods are sinapis, isatis, athionema, iberis and biscutella species.