Anthocharis scolymus

Yellow Tip
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Tribe: Anthocharini
Genus: Anthocharis
Species: A. scolymus
Binomial name
Anthocharis scolymus
(Butler, 1866)

The Yellow tip (Anthocharis scolymus), is a butterfly the Pierinae family whose range is most of Eastern Asia where it is commonplace. Occasionally it is found in Japan.