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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