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Indian Cabbage White

Pieris canidia

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in China.January 119, February 221, March 428, April 683, May 485, June 252, July 132, August 75, September 54, October 88, November 95, December 101.
China2,733
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region1,205
Taiwan956
Taiwan Province931
India780
Uttarākhand207
Taipei187
New Taipei170
South Korea154
Assam139

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilyWhites, Yellows, and Sulphurs · Pieridae
GenusGarden Whites · Pieris

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Indian Cabbage White with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.