''Pseudopieris nehemia'', the clean mimic-white, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

in the family

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. It is found from

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Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

and

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. The habitat consists of rainforests and transitional cloudforests.Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes
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is .Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador)
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Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised: *''Pseudopieris nehemia nehemia'' (Brazil) *''Pseudopieris nehemia aequatorialis'' (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Bolivia, Peru) *''Pseudopieris nehemia limbalis'' Röber, 1924 (Brazil: Pará) *''Pseudopieris nehemia prasina'' Hayward, 1949 (Argentina) *''Pseudopieris nehemia francisca'' Lamas, 1979 (Honduras) *''Pseudopieris nehemia irma'' Lamas, 1979 (Guatemala) *''Pseudopieris nehemia luisa'' Lamas, 1979 (Panama) *''Pseudopieris nehemia melania'' Lamas, 1985 (Peru) *''Pseudopieris nehemia jessica'' Lamas, 2004 (Peru) *''Pseudopieris nehemia mariana'' Lamas, 2004 (Peru)

References

Dismorphiinae Butterflies described in 1836 Fauna of Brazil Pieridae of South America Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval {{Pieridae-stub