Anthocharis damone

Eastern orange tip
	Eastern orange tip
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Anthocharis
Species:	A. damone
Binomial name
	Anthocharis damone; (Boisduval, 1836)

Anthocharis damone, the eastern orange tip, is a butterfly in the subfamily Pierinae, found in southern Europe and into Asia Minor.

Description in Seitz edit

A. damone Boisd. from South Italy, Sicily, the southern Balcan, Asia Minor and Syria, is sexually dimorphic. The male is lemon-yellow above and below, with a narrowly black apex, large deep orange-red apical patch, which is more or less dark-edged proximally, and with a large black median spot to the forewing: the underside of the hindwing deeper yellow, with grey-greenish markings. The female is white above and on the underside of the forewing, and has a broader blackish apex to the upperside of the forewing. — pallida form. nov. is the name for the form occurring in Mesopotamia; male above somewhat paler yellow, the dark apex of the forewing is strongly mixed with red, the orange patch is less fiery, being dark-edged only in the cell, the black median spot is smaller, less prominent, the ground-colour of the hindwing beneath is lighter yellow, and the dark markings are more united to isolated patches. In the female the black median spot of the forewing is smaller on both sides and less sharply marked, the underside of the hindwing being lighter yellow.^[1]

Anthocharis damone ♂
Anthocharis damone ♂ △

Habitat edit

In Armenia A. damone inhabits mountain steppes, but also occurs in juniper woodlands, occupying elevation range from 1200 to 2200 m a.s.l.^[2]

References edit

^ 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.
^ Butterfly Conservation Armenia. "State of Anthocharis damone in Armenia". Butterfly Conservation Armenia. TSE NGO. Retrieved 18 February 2018.

External links edit

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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.

[BCA-2] Butterfly Conservation Armenia. "State of Anthocharis damone in Armenia". Butterfly Conservation Armenia. TSE NGO. Retrieved 18 February 2018.

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