---
title: "Borboleta-brancão"
description: "Ascia monuste — Insetos e aranhas. Ascia is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/great-southern-white
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Borboleta-brancão

> Ascia monuste — Insetos e aranhas. Ascia is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae.

- Scientific name: *Ascia monuste*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 27093
- Wikidata: [Q1306636](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1306636)
- iNaturalist taxon: [51536](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/51536)

## Names

- en: Great Southern White
- de: Amerikanischer Kohlweißling
- es: Mariposa blanca gigante
- fr: Piéride du tapier
- pt: Borboleta-brancão

## Countries with the most observations

US (8694), MX (6528), BR (3713), CR (624), AR (600), PR (321), HN (312), TT (302), CO (262), EC (227), DO (205), CU (191)

## Summary

Ascia is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. It is monotypic, being represented by the single species Ascia monuste, commonly known as the great southern white, In this species the sexes may differ with the female being either light or dark colored. It is found from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, and south to Argentina. It is migratory along the south-eastern coast of the United States, with strays to Maryland, Kansas, and Colorado.
Larvae have distinct body segments within which there appears to be four to six subsegments. They are purplish-green with two longitudinal, greenish-yellow…

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

## Photo

![Borboleta-brancão](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-southern-white/medium.jpg)

Photo: Guilherme Silva · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/33784630

## Machine access

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