title: Pierina (butterfly)
text: # Pierina (butterfly)
  
  Pierina is a subtribe of cabbage whites, checkered whites, albatrosses in the family Pieridae. There are about 8 genera and 18 described species in Pierina.
  
  ## Genera
  
  These eight genera belong to the subtribe Pierina.
  
  * Ascia Scopoli, 1777
  * Ganyra Billberg, 1820
  * Glutophrissa Butler, 1887
  * Itaballia Kaye, 1904
  * Leptophobia Butler, 1870
  * Pieriballia Klots, 1933
  * Pieris Schrank, 1801
  * Pontia [Fabricius], 1807 (checkered whites)
  