| Lofty Bath white | |
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| P. c. kalora at Chandratal Lake (14,000 feet (4,300 m)), near Manali, India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Pontia |
| Species: | P. callidice |
| Binomial name | |
| Pontia callidice Hübner 1799-1800 | |
| Synonyms | |
Synchloe callidice | |
Pontia callidice, the lofty Bath white or peak white, is a small butterfly of the yellows and whites family (Pieridae), which occurs in the Palearctic realm.
Description from Charles Thomas Bingham's (1907) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Butterflies, Volume II, pp 178–179. Pieris callidice
(=Pieris kalora, Moore, P.Z.S. 1865:449)
Wingspan: 53–60 mm.
Within India, it occurs in the north-western Himalayas above 12,000 feet (3,700 m) from Chitral to Mussoorie. It also occurs in the higher mountains of Europe, in Asia from the Altai to the Himalayas, and in China. (Bingham, 1907)
It lives at high altitude in alpine meadows, above the tree line.
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