#3158 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Great Southern White

Ascia monuste

8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © juditga · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © krancmm · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Alan Rockefeller · CC BY 4.0
4. © Hugo Hulsberg · CC0
5. © rauvbbj · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Joás · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Vitor C. Dias Gonçalves · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Hugo Hulsberg · CC0

what is it?

Ascia monuste , the great southern white or pirpinto in Argentina, is a butterfly which is the only species in the genus Ascia of the family Pieridae. In this species the sexes may differ with the female being either light or dark colored. It is found from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, and south through tropical America to Argentina. It is migratory along the southeastern coast of the United States, with strays to...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,486iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).