Indian cabbage white
The Indian cabbage white is a white or pale cream butterfly with black wing tips and a few black spots. It looks a lot like the cabbage white butterflies of Europe, which are its close cousins. It lives in the hills and mountains of Asia.
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Fun facts
One of its closest relatives is the small cabbage white that flutters in European gardens.
In the Himalayas it lives from about 600 metres up to 3350 metres high.
The female has more black on her wings than the male.
Most asked questions about Indian cabbage white
?How big is the Indian cabbage white?
Its wings measure about 4 to 6 centimetres from tip to tip.
?Where does the Indian cabbage white live?
In the hills and mountains of India, Nepal, Myanmar and China.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pieris canidia
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pieris canidia (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Pushpa CR. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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