Southern Rocky Mountain Orangetip

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Southern Rocky Mountain Orangetip
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Subfamily: Pierinae
Tribe: Anthocharini
Genus: Anthocharis
Species: A. julia
Binomial name
Anthocharis julia
(W.H. Edwards, 1872)

The Southern Rocky Mountain Orangetip (Anthocharis julia), is a butterfly found in the southern Rocky Mountains on the eastern side of the range. Their caterpillars feed on Rock Cress (Arabis) species.