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Anthocharis cardamines, the orange tip, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae, which contains about 1,100 species. A. cardamines is mainly found throughout Europe and temperate Asia [3] The males feature wings with a signature orange pigmentation, which is the origin of A. cardamines' common name.
The tip colors are usually a red-orange hue, hence the name "orange tip". The larvae of these butterfly often consume cruciferous plants containing chemicals called glucosinolates . This genus is characterized by two of the five subcostal veins branching off before the apex of the cell, by the upper radial being only little united with the ...
Hebomoia glaucippe, the great orange-tip, [2] [1] is a butterfly belonging to the family Pieridae, that is the yellows and whites. It is found in the Indomalayan realm and Wallacea . [ 2 ] [ 1 ]
The list comprises butterfly species listed in The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Emmet et al. [1] and Britain's Butterflies by Tomlinson and Still. [2] A study by NERC in 2004 found there has been a species decline of 71% of butterfly species between 1983 and 2003. [3]
Orange tip or orangetip refers to: Anthocharini, a tribe of butterflies. Anthocharis, a specific genus in the tribe Anthocharini. Anthocharis cardamines, a single species in the genus Anthocharis, commonly found in Europe and temperate Asia. Colotis, a genus of butterflies in the tribe Colotini endemic to Africa and India.
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).
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Anthocharis midea, the falcate orangetip, is a North American butterfly that was described in 1809 by Jacob Hübner. It belongs to the family Pieridae, which is the white and sulphurs. These butterflies are mostly seen in the eastern United States, and in Texas and Oklahoma. They eat the nectar of violets and mustards.