Anthocharis cardamines phoenissa

Anthocharis cardamines phoenissa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Tribe: Anthocharini
Genus: Anthocharis
Species: A. cardamines
Subspecies: A. c. phoenissa
Trinomial name
Anthocharis cardamines phoenissa
von Kalchberg, 1895

Anthocharis cardamines phoenissa is a subspecies of orange tip butterfly found mostly in the Middle East. "Of local forms we have to mention phoenissa Kalrhh.. from Syria, like ab. turritis, but purer white beneath." [1]

References

  1. 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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