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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 listed in the adjacent box): *''
Anthocharis belia ''Anthocharis belia'', the Moroccan orange tip, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae. It is found in northwestern Africa (specifically Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia). The length of the forewings is . Description in Seitz ''A. eupheno'' L. (syn ...
'' – Morocco orange tip *''
Anthocharis cethura ''Anthocharis cethura'', the desert orangetip or Felder's orangetip, is a species of butterfly in the subfamily Pierinae.Anthocharis cethura catalina ''Anthocharis cethura catalina'', the Catalina orangetip, is a subspecies of the desert orangetip butterfly that is endemic to Santa Catalina Island, off the California coast of the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. o ...
'' – Catalina orangetip *''
Anthocharis damone ''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 S ...
'' – eastern orange tip *''
Anthocharis euphenoides ''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- ...
'' – Provence orange tip *''
Anthocharis gruneri ''Anthocharis gruneri'' (Grüner's orange tip) is a butterfly found mainly in Turkey, Transcaucasian Mountains, Asia Minor and the Armenian highlands. Description in Seitz "''A. gruneri'' H.-Sch. from Greece, Southern Turkey, and Asia Minor, is ...
'' – Grüner's orange tip *''
Anthocharis julia ''Anthocharis julia'', the southern Rocky Mountain orangetip, is a butterfly found in the southern Rocky Mountains on the eastern side of the range. Their caterpillars feed on rock cress (''Arabis ''Arabis'' ,''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' ...
'' – southern Rocky Mountain orangetip *''
Anthocharis lanceolata ''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 ...
'' – gray marble *''
Anthocharis limonea ''Anthocharis limonea'', the Mexican orangetip, is a butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae mostly found in Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of sovereign states, country in t ...
'' – Mexican orangetip *''
Anthocharis midea ''Anthocharis midea'', the falcate orangetip, is a North American butterfly that was described in 1809 by Jacob Hübner. It belongs to the family Pieridae, which is the white and sulphurs. These butterflies are mostly seen in the eastern Unit ...
'' – falcate orangetip *'' Anthocharis sara'' – Sara's orangetip **''
Anthocharis sara thoosa ''Anthocharis thoosa'', the southwestern orangetip, is a butterfly which has a range mainly from the American Rocky Mountains down into Mexico Mexico (Spanish language, Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a List of ...
'' – southwestern orangetip *''
Anthocharis scolymus ''Anthocharis scolymus'', the yellow tip, is a butterfly in the subfamily Pierinae whose range is Eastern Asia (East China, Korea, Ussuri) where it is commonplace; occasionally it is found in Japan. The apex of the forewing is produced and falc ...
'' – yellow tip *'' Anthocharis stella'' – Stella orangetip **'' Anthocharis stella browningi'' – Utah Stella orangetip *''
Euchloe belemia ''Euchloe belemia'', the green-striped white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. Its range is northern Africa, Arabia (Oman, United Arab Emirates) and the southern Iberian peninsula, especially Spain and Portugal. The wingspan is . Adults a ...
'' – green-striped white *'' Euchloe charlonia'' – greenish black-tip *''
Euchloe crameri ''Euchloe crameri'', the western dappled white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. Description Fore and hind wings pearly white on the upperside, with a black apex , mottled white. Underside of the forewings very similar, although the a ...
'' – western dappled white *''
Euchloe olympia Dangers To Olympia Marble ''Euchloe olympia'', the Olympia marble, is a butterfly in the family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relatio ...
'' – Olympia marble *'' Phoebis avellaneda'' – red-splashed sulphur *''
Pieris angelika ''Pieris angelika'' (Arctic white) is a cold-climate butterfly of the family Pieridae. Its main range is the Yukon, Northwest Territories, northwestern British Columbia, and Alaska. Its taxonomic name may change in the future, because it was des ...
'' – Arctic white *''
Pieris brassicae ''Pieris brassicae'', the large white, also called cabbage butterfly, cabbage white, cabbage moth (erroneously), or in India the large cabbage white, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is a close relative of the small white, ''Pieris ra ...
'' – large white *'' Pieris marginalis'' – margined white **'' Pieris marginalis reicheli'' – Reichel's margined white *'' Pieris oleracea'' – mustard white **'' Pieris oleracea frigida'' – Newfoundland white *''
Pieris rapae ''Pieris rapae'' is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae. It is known in Europe as the small white, in North America as the cabbage white or cabbage butterfly, on several continents as the small c ...
'' – small white *'' Pieris virginiensis'' – West Virginia white butterfly


References


Further reading

* Glassberg, Jeffrey (2001). ''Butterflies through Binoculars, The West'' * Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. (2001). ''Butterflies of British Columbia'' * James, David G. and Nunnallee, David (2011). ''Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies'' * Pelham, Jonathan (2008). ''Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada'' * Pyle, Robert Michael (2002). ''The Butterflies of Cascadia''


External links

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Pierinae at TOL
Suggested
phylogeny A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological spe ...
and images.
Butterflies and Moths of North America

Butterflies of America
* Butterfly subfamilies {{Pieridae-stub