Anthocharis euphenoides
| Provence Orange Tip | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Tribe: | Anthocharini |
| Genus: | Anthocharis |
| Species: | A. euphenoides |
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| Anthocharis euphenoides (Staudinger, 1869) | |
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The Provence Orange Tip (Anthocharis euphenoides) is a butterfly. It has a similar range as the Morocco Orange Tip but tends to rove a little further north. Its caterpillars use Biscutella as their food source.
Description in Seitz
A. euphenoides is distinguished in both sexes only by the colour and markings of the underside of the hindwing. In the females the colour of the apical area of the upperside of forewing is very variable, for there occur also specimens with rather large reddish yellow patch. — ab. lecithosa Tur., hitherto only found in South France, has no orange patch in the male, but, like the female of this form, a sulphur-yellow apical spot. — Larva greenish, with yellow and black dorsal markings , white lateral stripes and large black dots, head green; in autumn on Biscutella species; it is a so-called cannibal-caterpillar. Pupa hght brown, also green, very strongly incurved (Spuler).[1]
Gallery
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Museum specimens of Provence Orange Tip
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Female
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Female
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Male
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Male
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Anthocharis in Seitz
References
- ↑ Julius Röber, 1909 Pieridae, pp. 39-74, 374, pls. 17-27. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), Die Groß-Schmetterlinge der Erde. 1. Band. Die palaearctischen Tagfalter. – Stuttgart, Fritz Lehmann.