''Anteos menippe'', the great orange tip or orange-tipped angled-sulphur, is a neotropical

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...

of the 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 ...

. Catalogue of life

Distribution and habitat

This species is present from

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. These butterflies can be found in

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Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ''Eku ...

Peru , image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg , image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg , other_symbol = Great Seal of the State , other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal , national_motto = "Fi ...

and

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. They prefer lowland areas and riverbanks.Great Orange tip
Butterflies of Amazonia

Description

''Anteos menippe'' can reach a

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...

of . In these fairly large butterflies the upperside of the males is pale yellow with pale orange (sometimes pink orange) large markings on the pointed forewing tips (as the common name suggests), with two dark brown spots and a dark brown border. Both sexes have a cryptic pale yellow to pale green leaf-like underside, with a pink disc dot on the front and rear wings. The females have two forms, one similar to the male and the other white, with black markings on the forewing edges. The underwings have several odd shaped orange markings.

Biology

Caterpillars of ''Anteos menippe'' feed on plants of the Brassicaceae and

Fabaceae The Fabaceae or Leguminosae,International Code of Nomenc ...

('' Cassia''). Adults feed on the nectar of '' Cassia'' species. They are migrant along rivers.

Bibliography

*G. Lamas (2008) Checklist of Pieridae of the World *Lamas, G., C. Callaghan, M. M. Casagrande, O. Mielke, T. Pyrcz, R. Robbins and A. Viloria (2004) Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea -- Papilionoidea, in Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera/Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida. *Ferrer-Paris, J.R., J.P. Rodríguez, T.C. Good, A.Y. Sánchez-Mercado, K.M. Rodríguez-Clark, G.A. Rodríguez & A. Solís (2013) Systematic, large-scale national biodiversity surveys: NeoMaps as a model for tropical regions, Diversity and Distributions. 19, 215–231 *Robinson, G. S., P. R. Ackery, I. J. Kitching, G. W. Beccaloni & L. M. Hernández (2010) HOSTS - A Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. Natural History Museum, London. *Hübner (1818) Samml. exot. Schmett. 1:pl 47 f 1-2

References

Coliadinae Butterflies of North America Pieridae of South America Fauna of the Amazon Butterflies described in 1818 {{Pieridae-stub