PIERIDAE of Australia
Whites and Yellows.
PAPILIONOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
&
Stella Crossley

(updated 1 February 2008)

PIERIDAE Caterpillars live in the open, and rely on camouflage for protection. They are usually green or reddish brown. They have no spiky fleshy processes, being covered in fine hairs only. Their pupae are attached to a stem, or more often a flat surface, by a cremaster and a central silken girdle. The head end of the pupa is pointed or forked, and the upper surface often bears one or more pointed projections.

The 36 Australian species in PIERIDAE are:

Appias ada : Rare Albatross
Appias albina : White Albatross
Appias celestina
Appias paulina : Common Albatross
Appias melania : Grey Albatross

Belenois java : Caper White

Catopsilia gorgophone : Yellow Migrant
Catopsilia pomona : Lemon Migrant
Catopsilia pyranthe : Common Migrant
Catopsilia scylla : Orange Migrant

Cepora perimale : Australian Gull

Delias aganippe : Wood White
Delias argenthona : Northern Jezabel
Delias aruna : Orange Jezabel
Delias ennia : Nigidius Jezabel
Delias harpalyce : Imperial White
Delias mysis : Union Jack
Delias nigrina : Common Jezabel
Delias nysa : Nysa Jezabel

Elodina angulipennis : Common Pearl White

Elodina claudia
Elodina padusa : Narrow-Winged Pearl White
Elodina parthia : Chalk White
Elodina perdita : Northern Pearl White
Elodina queenslandica : Queensland Pearl White
Elodina tongura
Elodina walkeri

Eurema alitha
Eurema brigitta : No-Brand Grass Yellow
Eurema hecabe : Common Grass Yellow
Eurema herla : Macleay's Grass Yellow
Eurema laeta : Line Grass Yellow
Eurema puella : Broad Margined Grass Yellow
Eurema smilax : Small Grass Yellow

Leptosia nina : Psyche

Pieris rapae : Cabbage White

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