Anthocharis cardamines phoenissa

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Anthocharis cardamines phoenissa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Anthocharis
Species:
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[edit]

  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.