''Anthocharis bambusarum'' is a

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

which has a range of mainly in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

and

Eastern Asia East Asia is a geocultural region of Asia. It includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan, plus two special administrative regions of China, Hong Kong and Macau. The economies of China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan ...

. It has no known subspecies.

Description in Seitz

"''A. bambusarum'' from Tse-Kiang in China, is somewhat larger than ''

Anthocharis cardamines ''Anthocharis cardamines'', the orange tip, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae, which contains about 1,100 species. ''A. cardamines'' is mainly found throughout Europe and temperate Asia (Palearctic). The males feature wings with a signature o ...

'' the whole forewing above and beneath is uniformly dull orange-red; the apex of forewing less broadly dark and not black, but greenish, the black discocellular spot less distinct than in ''cardamines'', the hindwing very similar to that of ''cardamines'' above and beneath." "''extensa'' form. nov. öber ow considered a synonym of ''Anthocharis bambusarum'' from China (Nangking), leads over to the next form speciosa''">Anthocharis_cardamines.html" ;"title="'Anthocharis cardamines">speciosa'' being a transitional link; almost the whole forewing orange-red, hardlv one-fourth of the wing being light yellow, the orange deeper than in the other forms, but not so dark as in [most] ''bambusarum''.Julius Röber Pieridae, pp. 39-74, 374, pls. 17-27. In: Adalbert Seitz, Seitz, A. (ed.), 1909 Die Groß-Schmetterlinge der Erde. 1. Band. Die palaearctischen Tagfalter. – Stuttgart, Fritz Lehmann.

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* * bambusarum Butterflies described in 1876 Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Charles Oberthür {{Pieridae-stub