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tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...

Anthocharini is one of the subdivisions of the insect

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

, which includes the moths and butterflies. It is a further subdivision of the butterfly family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.DeVries P. J. in Levi ...

and subfamily

Pierinae The Pierinae are a large subfamily of pierid butterflies. The subfamily is one of several clades of butterflies often referred to as the whites. Species It includes the following species (additional species can be found under the tribes list ...

; formerly it was considered a subfamily on its own, Anthocharinae. This tribe includes many, but not all, of the orangetip butterflies.Anthocharidini
Tree of Life Some notable species and subspecies of tribe Anthocharini include: * Catalina orangetip (''Anthocharis cethura catalina'') * Desert orangetip (''Anthocharis cethura cethura'') *

Eastern dappled white ''Euchloe ausonia'', the eastern dappled white, is a southern European and Palearctic butterfly found mostly to the south and east of its almost indistinguishable relative the western dappled white. Description The wingspan is 36–48 mm ...

(''Euchloe ausonia'') * Eastern greenish black-tip (''Euchloe penia'') *

Eastern orange tip ''Anthocharis damone'', the eastern orange tip, is a butterfly in the subfamily Pierinae, found in southern Europe and into Asia Minor. Description in Seitz ''A. damone'' Boisd. from South Italy, Sicily, the southern Balcan, Asia Minor and ...

(''Anthocharis damone'') * Falcate orangetip (''Anthocharis midea'') *

Gray marble ''Anthocharis lanceolata'', the gray marble, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. The species was first described by Hippolyte Lucas Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas (17 January 1814 – 5 July 1899) was a French entomologist. Lucas was an assistant ...

(''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'', the Provence orange tip, is a species of butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Iberian Peninsula (missing in the southwest and northeast), in the south of France (from the eastern Pyrenees to the Alpes- ...

(''Anthocharis euphenoides'') *

Sara's orangetip ''Anthocharis sara'', the Sara Orangetip is one of three species in the Sara Orangetip complex. It is a California endemic butterfly with populations extending from Baja California into extreme southwest Oregon. The common name, Pacific Orangeti ...

(''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'')

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3618462 Taxa named by J. W. Tutt Butterfly tribes Pierinae