Dark-veined white
The dark-veined white is a white butterfly from the mountains of Europe and Asia. Its wing veins are drawn in thick dark lines, like a pencil sketch. The females are often yellowish or greyish brown.
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Fun facts
It lives high up, between 800 and 2,700 metres above the sea.
It spends the winter as a chrysalis.
The summer butterflies are paler than the spring ones.
Where it meets its close cousin, the green-veined white, the two can have mixed babies.
Collectors love it, especially near Mödling in Austria, where its looks change a lot from one butterfly to the next.
Most asked questions about Dark-veined white
?Where does the dark-veined white live?
In the mountains of Europe and Asia, such as the Alps, the Carpathians and the Caucasus, on flowery meadows.
?How big is the dark-veined white?
Its open wings are about 4 to 4.4 centimetres across.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pieris bryoniae
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Pieridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Pieridae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Mountain green-veined white
Where the facts come from
- Pieris bryoniae (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 Charles J. Sharp. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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