pierid

(ˈpaɪərɪd)

(Animals) any pieridine butterfly

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pierid - any of numerous pale-colored butterflies having three pairs of well-developed legs

pierid butterfly

butterfly - diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings

family Pieridae, Pieridae - arthropod family including cabbage butterflies; sulphur butterflies

cabbage butterfly - white butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage

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The Pierid butterflies of the Genera Hypsochila Ureta, Phulia Herrich-Schaffer, Infraphulia Field, Pierphulia Field, and Piercolias Staudinger.

Mariposas (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) de Arequipa, Peru: Lista preliminar con dos nuevos registros para Peru

Notes on the rare Mexican pierid Prestonia clarki (Pieridae).

Palpos labiales de la mariposa Prestonia clarki (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Ultraestructura de organos sensoriales y sensilas

Interspecific pairings have been reported in Nymphalid [17-19], Lycaenid [20], Pierid [21], and Papilionid [6,13,14,22] butterflies.

Occurrence of Interspecific Mating between Two Species of Danaus Kluk, 1780 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) in Nature

chapmanii, of which the most abundant were pierid caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) belonging to 3 species, Abaeis nicippe (Cramer) (the sleepy orange), Phoebis philea (L.) (the orange-barred sulfur), and Phoebis sennae (L.) (the cloudless sulfur).

Exploring whether and how ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) affect reproductive fitness in Senna mexicana var. chapmanii (Fabaceae)

Egg distribution and survivorship in the pierid butterfly, Colias alexandra.

Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Population of Selected Coniferous Forests of Murree Hills and Adjacent Areas, Pakistan

Experimental analyses of body size, flight survival in pierid butterflies.

Fluctuating Asymmetry, Morphological Changes and Flight Muscle Ratio in a Vip3A Resistant Sub-population of Heliothis virescens (WF06)

(1.9.47-50) In fact, I was singing praises for you even in my frenzy of mind: but now I am ashamed of myself and the Pierid Muses.

The boy as metaphor the hermeneutics of homoerotic desire in Tibullus 1.9

Temporal-dependent female choice is characteristic of bivoltine pierid butterflies, Leptidea reali, with spring generation females exhibiting higher male rejection rates than summer generation females (Friberg & Wiklund, 2007).

The effect of experience on male courtship and mating behaviors in a cellar spider

(2000): The use of specimen-label databases for conservation purposes: an example using Mexican Papilionid and Pierid butterflies.

La fauna de insectos del Permico de Lodeve (Herault, Francia): estado de los conocimentos y perspectivas

Soberon JM, Llorente JB, Onate L (2000) The use of specimen-label databases for conservation purposes: an example using Mexican Papilionid and Pierid butterflies.

Diversidad y distribucion de las magnoliophyta de Mexico