Anthocharis euphenoides

Provence orange tip
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Anthocharis
Species:	A. euphenoides
Binomial name
	Anthocharis euphenoides; Staudinger, 1869

Anthocharis euphenoides, the Provence orange tip, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Iberian Peninsula (missing in the southwest and northeast), in the south of France (from the eastern Pyrenees to the Alpes-Maritimes) and in Italy in the Abruzzo. There are a few records from Switzerland (Southern Ticino). Its caterpillars use Biscutella as their food source.

Description

This butterfly has a very marked sexual dimorphism: the male is yellow with the apex of the forewings orange bordered by a small black band while the female is white with the apex orange and the same black band. The underside of the hindwings is marked with green and the apex of the forewings is orange in the male, yellow in the female.^[2]

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 light brown, also green, very strongly incurved (Spuler).^[3]

Gallery

Museum specimens of Provence orange tip
Female
Female
Male
Male
Anthocharis in Seitz
Habitat in Ardeche

References

^ van Swaay, C.; Wynhoff, I.; Verovnik, R.; Wiemers, M.; López Munguira, M.; Maes, D.; Sasic, M.; Verstrael, T.; Warren, M.; Settele, J. (2010). "Anthocharis euphenoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T173276A6983854. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-1.RLTS.T173276A6983854.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
^ Lionel George Higgins, Norman Denbigh Riley 1980 A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe Collins, London ISBN 9780002120289
^ 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.

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[iucn_status_20_November_2021-1] van Swaay, C.; Wynhoff, I.; Verovnik, R.; Wiemers, M.; López Munguira, M.; Maes, D.; Sasic, M.; Verstrael, T.; Warren, M.; Settele, J. (2010). "Anthocharis euphenoides". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T173276A6983854. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-1.RLTS.T173276A6983854.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.

[2] Lionel George Higgins, Norman Denbigh Riley 1980 A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Europe Collins, London ISBN 9780002120289

[3] 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.

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