Pieris angelika

Pieris angelika
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.

References

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