What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Great Southern white been recorded?

Ascia monuste occurrence evidence comes from 2,064 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1875 to 2026. Most records come from Mexico.

Great Southern white
Great Southern white — Photo (display-sized rendition): Anne Toal from US · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraPieridaeAscia

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

2,064 records across 36 countries and territories, 1875–2026.

Ascia monuste · GBIF taxon key 5137540

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: August.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18752026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Great Southern white has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Great Southern white. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Mexico 833
United States 629
Brazil 183
Puerto Rico 110
Costa Rica 92
Colombia 56
US Virgin Islands 22
Argentina 18
Belize 14
Jamaica 10
Cayman Islands 10
Haiti 9
Nicaragua 7
Dominican Republic 6
Panama 6
British Virgin Islands 6
Bahamas 5
Cuba 5
Trinidad & Tobago 5
Ecuador 4
St Vincent & the Grenadines 4
Antigua & Barbuda 3
Guatemala 3
St Kitts & Nevis 3
Saint Lucia 3
Montserrat 3
SX 3
Barbados 2
United States Minor Outlying Islands 2
Venezuela 2
Honduras 1
MF 1
Martinique 1
El Salvador 1
Uruguay 1
ZZ 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.