Anthocharini

Anthocharini
Anthocharis cardamines
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Division:	Rhopalocera
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Subfamily:	Pierinae
Tribe:	Anthocharini J.W. Tutt, 1896
Genera[1]
Anthocharis Eroessa Euchloe Hesperocharis Leptosia Zegris

The tribe Anthocharini is one of the subdivisions of the insect order Lepidoptera, which includes the moths and butterflies. It is a further subdivision of the butterfly family Pieridae and subfamily Pierinae; formerly it was considered a subfamily on its own, Anthocharinae. This tribe includes many, but not all, of the orangetip butterflies.^[2]

Some notable species and subspecies of Tribe Anthocharini include:

• Catalina Orangetip (Anthocharis cethura catalina)
• Desert Orangetip (Anthocharis cethura cethura)
• Eastern Dappled White (Euchloe ausonia)
• Eastern Greenish Black-tip (Euchloe penia)
• Eastern Orange Tip (Anthocharis damone)
• Falcate Orangetip (Anthocharis midea)
• Gray Marble (Anthocharis lanceolata)
• Green-striped White (Euchloe belemia), and several subspecies
• Greenish Black-tip (Euchloe charlonia)
• Grüner's Orange Tip (Anthocharis gruneri), and several subspecies
• Mexican Orangetip (Anthocharis limonea)
• Morocco Orange Tip (Anthocharis belia)
• Olympia Marble (Euchloe olympia)
• Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines), and many subspecies, including A. c. phoenissa
• Portuguese Dappled White (Euchloe tagis), and many subspecies, including E. t. tagis, E. t. castellana, E. t. bellezina, E. t. reisseri and others.
• Provence Orange Tip (Anthocharis euphenoides)
• Sara's Orangetip (Anthocharis sara), and several subspecies
• Sooty Orange Tip (Zegris eupheme)
• Southern Rocky Mountain Orangetip (Anthocharis julia)
• Southwestern Orangetip (Anthocharis thoosa)
• Stella Orangetip (Anthocharis stella)
• Yellow tip (Anthocharis scolymus)

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