Neophasia terlooii, the Chiricahua White, Chiricahua (Pine) White or Chiricahua Pine White, is a butterfly

Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 in the Pieridae

Pieridae

The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing approximately 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and Asia. Most pierid butterflies are white, yellow or orange in coloration, often with black spots...

 family. It is found in New Mexico

New Mexico

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, the high mountains of Arizona

Arizona

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, south into Mexico

Mexico

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. The habitat consists of pine forests.

The wingspan

Wingspan

The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...

 is 45 millimetre. Males are white and resemble Neophasia menapia

Neophasia menapia

The Pine White is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in western USA and in southern British Columbia.It is mostly white with black vines and wing bars...

. Females are orange. On both, the upperside of the forewing has a black cell and costal margin. The tip of the wing is black with white spots. Adults are on wing from June to July and again from September to November in two generations per year. They feed on flower nectar and bird droppings in the forest understory.

The larvae feed on various conifers, including Englemann spruce, but mainly Pinus ponderosa. They live in a web and file out of it at night to feed. They pupate together in this web.