page_title: List of butterflies of Pakistan
section_title: Family Pieridae (whites and yellows)
hierarchical_section_title: List of butterflies of Pakistan / Family Pieridae (whites and yellows)
caption_attribution_description: English: Colias erate (Pale Clouded Yellow): 14th May 2014 from Taxila, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
context_page_description: The following is a list of the butterflies of Pakistan. The Indian purple emperor is the national butterfly of Pakistan.
context_section_description: Subfamily: Pierinae (whites)
  Leptosia nina (Psyche)
  Baltia shawi (Shaw's dwarf)
  Baltia butleri  (Butler's dwarf or two-spotted dwarf)
  Euchloe charlonia (lemon white)
  Euchloe lucilla (pale lemon white)
  Euchloe belemia (striped white)
  Euchloe daphalis (pearl white)
  Pontia chloridice (lesser Bath white)
  Pontia callidice (lofty Bath white or peak white)
  Pontia daplidice (Bath white)
  Pontia glauconome (desert Bath white)
  Pieris devta (Chitral green-banded white)
  Pieris ajaka (Himalayan green-veined white or Murree green-veined white)
  Pieris deota (alpine or Kashmir large white)
  Pieris canidia (Asian cabbage white)
  Pieris rapae (small cabbage white)
  Pieris brassicae (large cabbage white)
  Aporia leucodice (Himalayan blackvein)
  Aporia nabellica (dusky blackvein)
  Delias belladonna (hill Jezebel)
  Delias sanaca (pale Jezebel)
  Delias eucharis (common Jezebel)
  Belenois aurota (pioneer)
  Cepora nerissa (common gull)
  Pareronia hippia (Indian wanderer)
  Appias libythea (western striped albatross)
  Subfamily: Coliadinae (yellows)
  Catopsilia pomona (common emigrant or lemon migrant butterfly)
  Catopsilia pyranthe (mottled emigrant or white migrant butterfly)
  Ixias pyrene (yellow orangetip)
  Ixias marianne (white orangetip)  not confirmed
  Eurema hecabe (common grass yellow)
  Eurema brigitta (small grass yellow)
  Eurema laeta (short-bordered or spotless grass yellow)
  Eurema blanda (three-spot grass yellow)
  Gonepteryx rhamni (common brimstone)
  Gonepteryx mahaguru (lesser brimstone)
  Gonepteryx farinosa (Chitral brimstone) (subspecies G. f. chitralensis)
  Colias fieldii (dark clouded yellow)
  Colias erate (pale clouded yellow)
  Colias marcopolo (Marcopolo's clouded yellow)
  Colias alpherakii (green clouded yellow)
  Colias wiskotti (broad-bordered clouded yellow)
  Colias stoliczkana (orange clouded yellow)
  Colias cocandica (Pamir clouded yellow)
  Colias ladakensis (Ladak clouded yellow)
  Colias eogene (fiery clouded yellow)
  Colias leechi (glaucous clouded yellow)
  Colotis amata (small salmon Arab)
  Colotis protractus (blue-spotted Arab)
  Colotis vestalis (white Arab)
  Colotis fausta (large salmon Arab)
  Colotis liagore (desert orangetip)
  Colotis etrida (little or small orangetip)
  Colotis danae (crimsontip or scarlet-tip)
caption: Colias erate, Taxila
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