Arctic White | |
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Pieris angelika in Chugach State Park | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Division: | Rhopalocera |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Tribe: | Pierini |
Genus: | Pieris |
Species: | P. angelika |
Binomial name | |
Pieris angelika Eitschberger, 1983[1] |
The Arctic White (Pieris angelika) is a cold-climate butterfly of the Pieridae family. Its main range is the Yukon, northwestern Northwest Territories and northwestern British Columbia, and Alaska.[1] Its taxonomic name may change in the future, because there is a chance it was described and named before 1983.