''Dismorphia lysis'', the dainty egg white or Lysis mimic white, is a

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family (biology), family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from Afrotropical realm, tropical Africa and Indomalayan realm, tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern ...

. It is found from

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

to southern

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. The habitat consists of cloud forests. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is about .Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador)
/ref> Adults have long narrow almost elliptical forewings and large hindwings. The underside is white, mottled in grey and yellow.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised: *''Dismorphia lysis lysis'' (Ecuador) *''Dismorphia lysis peruana'' Röber, 1909 (Peru) *''Dismorphia lysis mariella'' Lamas, 2004 (Peru)

References

Dismorphiinae Butterflies described in 1869 Pieridae of South America Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson Lepidoptera of Peru Lepidoptera of Ecuador {{Pieridae-stub