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Natural History Photographs
by Cor Zonneveld
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Whites and Yellows: family Pieridae
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subfamily Pierinae
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Aporia crataegi
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Group of mudpuddling males. Jaca, Spain; May 1982. Habitat
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Female. Haeselgehr, Austria; July 1989.
Females loose scales during mating,
whence the hyaline forewings.
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Two mudpuddling males. Jaca, Spain; May 1982.
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Ticino, Switzerland; July 1996.
Alpine Green-veined white (male) & Black-veined white.
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Pieris brassicae
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Amsterdam, the Netherlands; undated.
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Amstelveen, the Netherlands;
16 June 2007.
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Pieris ergane
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Demirkazic (Aladag mountains),
Turkey; 1 June 2008.
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Yoncabaşi (Bitlis), Turkey; 9 June 2010.
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Pieris mannii
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Vernegues (Provence), France; June 1990.
Pieris mannii is difficult to distinguish from rapae, but there is a clue in the right photograph:
the costal dark mark on upperside hindwind, which shines through, is concavely shaped.
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Pieris napi
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subsp. bryoniae
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f. napaeae
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Nufenen Pass, Switzerland; 25 July 2007.
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Reutte, Austria; July 1989.
Specimens of the summer generation often
have very faint coloration along the veins.
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Stavelot, Belgium; 22 August 2006.
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Pieris rapae
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Stavelot, Belgium; 15 August 2006.
At Cirsium arvense.
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Provence, France; June 1990.
At Cistus.
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Stavelot, Belgium; 17 August 2006.
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Amstelveen, The Netherlands;
10 September 2006.
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