| Chumbi White | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Pieris |
| Species: | Pieris chumbiensis |
| Synonyms | |
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P. dubernardi chumbiensis de Nicéville, 1897 |
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Chumbi White, Pieris chumbiensis earlier considered a race of P. dubernardi[1]is a small butterfly of the Family Pieridae, that is, the Yellows and Whites, which is found in the Chumbi Valley in Sikkim in India.
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Male upperside ground colour is white. Fore wing has veins black, costal and terminal margins narrowly, apex more broadly, black ; the inner margin of the black at apex forms an even curve; a large round black spot in middle of interspace 3, the lower discocellular edged on either side with black and the base of the wing irrorated with black scales. Hind wing : with a dark greyish appearance due to the dark markings of the underside that show through by transparency; veins black ; a black costal spot a little before the apex, and the base of the wing heavily irrorated with black scales. Underside: fore wing white, veins edged with black scaling, the round black spot in interspace 3 as on the upperside; apex and terminal margin suffused w ith yellow that decreases posteriorly on the latter. Hind wing: yellow, all the veins very broadly edged with black that gives an appearance of streaks to the groundcolour; precostal area edged with deep cadmium-yellow. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen fuscous black. Female undescribed.[2]
Wing expanse of 54-58 mm.