| Desert Orangetip | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Tribe: | Anthocharini |
| Genus: | Anthocharis |
| Species: | A. cethura |
| Subspecies: | A. c. cethura |
| Trinomial name | |
| Anthocharis cethura cethura C. & R. Felder, 1865 |
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The Desert Orangetip, Anthocharis cethura cethura, is a butterfly of the Pierinae subfamily. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it lives in hills and ridges.[1] Its caterpillars mostly eat plants of the mustard family.[1]