Bug FAQChiricahua White
Neophasia terlooii · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Pieridae
Also called: Chiricahua Pine White, Mexican Pine White
Males are white and females orange, and both sexes show black cells and a dark costal margin on the upper side of the forewing. It lives in pine-forests of the family Pinaceae in New Mexico, the high mountains of Arizona, and extends south into Mexico.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Males are white while females are orange. Both sexes have black cells and a dark costal margin on the upperside of the forewing.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
The wingspan ranges from 45 to 58 mm (1.8 to 2.3 in).
Source: Wikipedia
Where it lives
It inhabits forests of needle-leaf conifers in the pine family (Pinaceae).
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 2 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Arizona, California.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Pieridae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophasia_terlooii
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Text written 2026-10-26 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-26.