---
title: "Black-veined White"
description: "Aporia crataegi — Insetos e aranhas. Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a large butterfly of the family Pieridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/black-veined-white
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Black-veined White

> Aporia crataegi — Insetos e aranhas. Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a large butterfly of the family Pieridae.

- Scientific name: *Aporia crataegi*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 22478
- Wikidata: [Q811483](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q811483)
- iNaturalist taxon: [61295](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61295)

## Names

- en: Black-veined White
- de: Baumweißling
- es: Blanca del Majuelo
- fr: Gazé
- nl: Groot geaderd witje
- pl: Niestrzęp głogowiec

## Countries with the most observations

RU (6305), FR (3625), IT (2111), ES (1419), DE (1392), FI (644), AT (596), CH (578), BG (342), DK (294), CZ (287), GR (285)

## Summary

Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a large butterfly of the family Pieridae.
A. crataegi is widespread and common. Its range extends from northwest Africa in the west to Transcaucasia and  across the Palearctic to Siberia and Japan in the east. In the south, it is found in Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and Syria. It is not usually present in the British Isles or northern Scandinavia.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aporia_crataegi

## Photo

![Black-veined White](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-veined-white/medium.jpg)

Photo: Mirko Ubović · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/287389744

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-veined-white?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).