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Pontia
	Pontia edusa edusa on Knautia arvensis; near Antsiferovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Tribe:	Pierini
Genus:	Pontia; Fabricius, 1807
Species
	Around a dozen, see text
Synonyms
	Mancipium Hübner, [1807]; Synchloe Hübner, 1818; Mancipium Stephens, 1828; Parapieris de Nicéville, 1897; Leucochloë Röber, [1907]; Leucochloe Röber, [1907]; Pontieuchloia Verity, 1929;

Pontia is a genus of pierid butterflies. They are found in the Holarctic, but are rare in Europe and central to eastern North America, and a few species range into the Afrotropics. Several East Asian species once placed here are now more often split off in Sinopieris. Like the closely related genus Pieris, they are commonly called whites.

Species

Listed alphabetically:^[1]

Pontia beckerii (Edwards, 1871) – Becker's white, Great Basin white, or sagebrush white
Pontia callidice (Hübner, 1799-1800) – peak white
Pontia chloridice (Hübner, 1808-1813) – small Bath white
Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758) – Bath white
Pontia distorta (Butler, 1886) – small meadow white
Pontia edusa (Fabricius, 1777) - eastern Bath white
Pontia glauconome (Klug, 1829) – desert (Bath) white
Pontia helice (Linnaeus, 1764) – meadow white
Pontia occidentalis (Reakirt, 1866) – western white
Pontia protodice (Boisduval & Le Conte, 1830) – checkered white
Pontia sisymbrii (Boisduval, 1852) – spring white, California white, or Colorado white

Some other species are occasionally placed here, but alternatively in other genera. Pontia extensa may belong in Pieris, while a number of other species from the China region are often split off in Sinopieris: