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Aporia crataegi / Black-veined White
Bardhoshja e murizës
Pieridae - Pierinae
Aporia crataegi (Linnaeus, 1758). TL: Sweden.
 
  
  
 
1a. Aporia crataegi, distribution map.  Historical data ;  Additional data from the 2018 update ;  New observations since the 2018 update.
1b. Aporia crataegi ♂ underside. Mali i Thatë, Albania (© Lulëzim Shuka)
1c. Aporia crataegi ♂♂ nectaring. Librazdh, Albania (© Sylvain Cuvelier)
1d. Aporia crataegi ♀ underside. Llogora, Albania (© Lulëzim Shuka)
1e. Aporia crataegi ♂ upperside. Llogora, Albania (© Lulëzim Shuka)
1f. Aporia crataegi dormitory. France (© Sylvain Cuvelier)
1g. Aporia crataegi copula. Greece (© Sylvain Cuvelier)
1h. Aporia crataegi pupa. Greece (© Sylvain Cuvelier)
1i. Aporia crataegi ♂♂ harassing a ♀. Greece (© Sylvain Cuvelier)
1j Aporia crataegi ♀ underside with unnatural red color on the hindwings. Greece (© Sylvain Cuvelier)
Description
♂♂
Large butterfly. Fw: 28-34.
Ups: white gc with blackish veins. Worn specimens sometimes translucent.
Uns: similar.
♀♀
Larger.
Upf: semi-transparent, veins brownish. Worn specimens sometimes translucent.
Uph: thinly scaled.
Similar species
Parnassius mnemosyne
Upf:
Cell-spot.
Conspicuous discal mark.
Uph:
Conspicuous postdiscal spot.
Black suffused inner margin
Unf:
Cell-spot.
Conspicuous discal mark.
Unh:
Postdiscal spot.
Black suffused inner margin
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Life cycle
Adults: single generation from April to July, short life span (2 weeks)
Egg: 12-23 days.
Caterpillar: early stages in a webbed shelter, overwintering as half-grown larva in a nest with 10-40 other larvae, feeding again in early spring.
Pupa: 12-19 days.
Habitat
Aporia crataegi inhabits warm, rough areas with bushes, sometimes in orchards from lowland up to 1700 m a.s.l., nomadic specimens even higher.
Spatial requirment moderate, population density can be high, nomadic, some years migrating over long distances.
Foodplants
Caterpillars feed on different trees and scrubs: Crataegus sp., Prunus sp. and Pyrus sp., also mentioned are Malus sp., Sorbus sp., Amygdalus sp. and Rosa sp.
Butterflies feed on a variety of low flowers, spending little time foraging.
Distribution
Albania: widespread.
Balkan: AL - BG - BIH - GR - HR - NMK - MNE - RKS - RO - SLO - SRB
Europe: IB - IT - ALP - BAL - NWE - UK - SCA - EEU
Asia Minor, Near East, Transcaucasia, Caucasus and further east.
Conservation status
Aporia crataegi is not endangered.
Albanian Red List: NE.
IUCN Red List, category at the Mediterranean level: LC.
Useful links
Bink 2015
Pyrgus.de
Lepiforum
Euroleps
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