Tribe Anthocharini Rank Species | Genus Anthocharis | |
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Similar Anthocharis, Euchloe crameri, Glaucopsyche melanops, Coenonympha dorus, Carcharodus lavatherae | ||
The provence orange tip anthocharis euphenoides
Anthocharis euphenoides, the Provence orange tip, is a butterfly. It has a similar range as the Morocco orange tip but tends to rove a little further north. Its caterpillars use Biscutella as their food source.
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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).
