Pieris ergane

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Mountain small white
Mountain small white (Pieris ergane) Bulgaria.jpg
In Bulgaria
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Pieris
Species:
P. ergane
Binomial name
Pieris ergane
(Geyer, [1828])

Pieris ergane, the mountain small white, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in Southern Europe, Asia Minor, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Transcaucasia.

The length of the forewings is 19–24 mm. Adults are on wing from April to September in two to three generations

The larvae feed on Aethionema saxatile and .

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