Dark-veined White

Artogeia bryoniae

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Female, Switzerland, June 2006

Female, Switzerland, June 2006

Female, Switzerland

Males in Switzerland

Female, Switzerland

Female, Switzerland.

The dark-veined, or mountain green-veined, white is very closely related to the green-veined white (not considered a separate species by all). Females especially vary much in darkness but are usually fairly obviously different from green-veined whites. They fly in a single brood in the mountains, rather than in two broods, and are generally common, at low density, near where I live in Switzerland.