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

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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[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.