Pontia callidice, the lofty Bath white or peak white, is a small butterfly of the yellows and whites family (Pieridae), which occurs in the Palearctic realm.

Description

Description from Charles Thomas Bingham's (1907) The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma, Butterflies, Volume II, pp 178–179. Pieris callidice (=Pieris kalora, Moore, P.Z.S. 1865:449)

Male

Female

Wingspan: 53–60 mm.

Range

Within India, it occurs in the north-western Himalayas above 12000 ft from Chitral to Mussoorie. It also occurs in the higher mountains of Europe, in Asia from the Altai to the Himalayas, and in China. (Bingham, 1907)

Habitat

It lives at high altitude in alpine meadows, above the tree line.