PIERIDAE
(white butterflies, brimstones, and orange-tips)

Interactions where PIERIDAE is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'Interaction References').

Filters:

Affected Part Summary Taxon Vernacular Classification References Darwin Classification of Active Taxon Active Taxon Active Vernacular Active Taxon Uncertain Active State Active Part Active Stage Relationship Relationship Uncertain Relationship Geography Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon Passive Taxon Passive Vernacular Passive Taxon Uncertain Passive State Passive Part Passive Stage Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon Indoors etc Season Summary
larva is endoparasitoid host of usually gregarious larva Major Phryxe vulgaris a parasitoid fly Diptera: Tachinidae Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae), Belshaw, R., 1993
 /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Diptera/Tachinidae/Phryxe vulgaris/Phryxe vulgarisa parasitoid flyusually gregariouslarva Animal / parasitoid / endoparasitoid /Animalia/Arthropoda/Insecta/Lepidoptera/Pieridae/Pieridaewhite butterflies, brimstones, and orange-tipslarvaMajor usually gregarious larva is endoparasitoid of larva

Author & YearTitleSource
Belshaw, R., 1993Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae)Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol 10, Part 4a(i), 169pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London

PIERIDAE (white butterflies, brimstones, and orange-tips) may be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

PIERIDAE (white butterflies, brimstones, and orange-tips) may also be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
interactions		 No of
references
COLIADINAE
brimstone and cleopatra butterflies
Subfamily 2 subtaxa 2 trophisms 2 references
DISMORPHIINAE
wood white butterflies
Subfamily 2 subtaxa 2 references
Leptideini
wood white butterflies
Tribe 2 subtaxa 2 references
Leptidea
wood white butterflies
Genus 2 subtaxa 2 references
PIERINAE
orange-tip and white butterflies
Subfamily 5 subtaxa 24 trophisms 3 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
FamilyPIERIDAE (white butterflies, brimstones, and orange-tips)
SuperfamilyPAPILIONOIDEA (butterflies)
SuborderGLOSSATA (a suborder of moths)
OrderLEPIDOPTERA (butterflies and moths)
Division Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
InfraclassNeoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
SubclassPTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
ClassINSECTA (true insects)
SubphylumHEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
PhylumARTHROPODA (arthropods)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for PIERIDAE (white butterflies, brimstones, and orange-tips)

PIERIDAE (white butterflies, brimstones, and orange-tips) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to PIERIDAE (white butterflies, brimstones, and orange-tips):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 204 images of PIERIDAE (white butterflies, brimstones, and orange-tips)
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