genus

PontiaFabricius, 1807

Checkered Whites

species: 10out of 1471% covered
images: 3,436

Counts cover images whose name resolved to a species accepted by Catalogue of Life, so they can be lower than the totals on the Collections page. Totals and percentages compare them with the accepted families, genera and species Catalogue of Life places in this taxon.

Species in this genus

Morphospace

Variation in species coloration mapped onto the latent space. Each species is represented by two points, one for its dorsal side and one for its ventral side. The farther apart the dorsal and ventral points are, the more different the two sides are in coloration.

Classification

genusPontia10 species3,436 images
- speciesPontia beckerii(Edwards, 1871)393 images
- speciesPontia callidice(Hübner, [1800] )133 images
- speciesPontia chloridice(Hübner, [1813] )53 images
- speciesPontia daplidice(Linnaeus, 1758)445 images
- speciesPontia distorta(Butler, 1886)
- speciesPontia dubernardiOberthür, 1884
- speciesPontia edusa(Fabricius, 1777)732 images
- speciesPontia glauconomeKlug, 182926 images
- speciesPontia helice(Linnaeus, 1764)42 images
- speciesPontia kozlovi(Alpheraky, 1897)
- speciesPontia occidentalis(Reakirt, 1866)101 images
- speciesPontia protodice(Boisduval & Leconte, [1830] )1,001 images
- speciesPontia sherpae(Epstein, 1979)
- speciesPontia sisymbrii(Boisduval, 1852)510 images

Linked species have records in the collection. Species in grey are in the Catalogue of Life classification but have no images here yet.

Source: Catalogue of Life (v2026-08-26 XR)