''Anthocharis'' is a

holarctic The Holarctic realm is a biogeographic realm that comprises the majority of habitats found throughout the continents in the Northern Hemisphere. It corresponds to the floristic Boreal Kingdom. It includes both the Nearctic zoogeographical reg ...

genus of the

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 ...

tribe

Anthocharini The tribe (biology), tribe Anthocharini is one of the subdivisions of the insect order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which includes the moths and butterflies. It is a further subdivision of the butterfly family Pieridae and subfamily Pierinae; fo ...

, in the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family (biology), family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from Afrotropical realm, tropical Africa and Indomalayan realm, tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern ...

. These are typically small, white-hued butterflies that have colorful marks just inside the tips of the forewings. The tip colors are usually a red-orange hue, hence the name "orange tip". The larvae of these butterfly often consume cruciferous plants containing chemicals called

glucosinolates Glucosinolates are natural components of many pungent plants such as mustard, cabbage, and horseradish. The pungency of those plants is due to mustard oils produced from glucosinolates when the plant material is chewed, cut, or otherwise dama ...

. This genus is characterized by two of the five subcostal veins branching off before the apex of the cell, by the upper radial being only little united with the subcostal, and by the central discocellular being rather long. In all the species the males have at least the apical portion of the forewing orange red or yellow. Only one species inhabits also the northern districts of the Palearctic region, all the others are found in the south of the Palearctic region, also some species occur in North America, but not one species extends into the tropics. The Anthocharis species have only one brood. The butterflies occur in spring.

Species

Species and subspecies belonging to the genus ''Anthocharis'' include:''Anthocharis''
funet.fi * '' Anthocharis bambusarum'' (Oberthür) * '' Anthocharis belia'' (Linnaeus, 1767) – Morocco orange tip * '' Anthocharis bieti'' (Oberthür, 1884) * ''

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 ...

'' (Linnaeus, 1758) – orange tip ** ''

Anthocharis cardamines phoenissa ''Anthocharis cardamines phoenissa'' is a subspecies of orange tip butterfly found mostly in the Middle East. "Of local forms we have to mention ''phoenissa'' Kalrhh.. from Syria, like ab. ''turritis'', but purer white beneath."Julius Röber J ...

'' (Kalchberg, 1894) * '' Anthocharis carolinae'' Back, 2006 (Mazandaran (Iran), South Armenia) * '' Anthocharis cethura'' (C. & R. Felder, 1865) – desert orangetip ** ''Anthocharis cethura cethura'' – desert orangetip ** '' Anthocharis cethura bajacalifornica'' J.F. Emmel, T.C. Emmel & Mattoon, 1998 ** '' Anthocharis cethura catalina'' (Meadows, 1937) – Catalina orangetip ** ''

Anthocharis cethura pima ''Anthocharis'' is a holarctic genus of the butterfly tribe Anthocharini, in the family Pieridae. These are typically small, white-hued butterflies that have colorful marks just inside the tips of the forewings. The tip colors are usually a red-o ...

'' W.H. Edwards, 1888 * '' Anthocharis damone'' (Boisduval, 1836) – eastern orange tip * '' Anthocharis euphenoides'' (Staudinger, 1869) – Provence orange tip * '' Anthocharis gruneri'' (Herrich-Schäffer, 1851) – Grüner's orange tip * '' Anthocharis julia'' (Edwards, 1872) – southern Rocky Mountain orangetip * '' Anthocharis lanceolata'' (Lucas, 1852) – gray marble ** ''

Anthocharis lanceolata australis ''Anthocharis'' is a holarctic genus of the butterfly tribe Anthocharini, in the family Pieridae. These are typically small, white-hued butterflies that have colorful marks just inside the tips of the forewings. The tip colors are usually a red-o ...

'' (Grinnell, 1908) ** '' Anthocharis lanceolata desertolimbus'' J.F. Emmel, T.C. Emmel & Mattoon, 1998 * '' Anthocharis limonea'' (Butler, 1871) – Mexican orangetip * '' Anthocharis midea'' (Hübner, 1809) – falcate orangetip ** '' Anthocharis midea texas'' Gatrelle, 1998 * '' Anthocharis monastiriensis'' Soures, 1998 (Tunisia) * '' Anthocharis sara'' (Lucas, 1852) – Sara's orangetip ** '' Anthocharis sara inghami'' Gunder, 1932 ** '' Anthocharis sara thoosa'' (Scudder, 1878) – southwestern orangetip * '' Anthocharis scolymus'' (Butler, 1866) – yellow tip * '' Anthocharis stella'' (Edwards, 1879) – Stella orangetip ** ''Anthocharis stella stella'' – Stella orangetip ** '' Anthocharis stella browningi'' – Utah Stella orangetip * '' Anthocharis taipaichana'' (Verity, 1911) * '' Anthocharis thibetana'' (Oberthür, 1886) (West China) has the orange patch as in '' A. cardamines turritis'', but the veins of the hindwing above are bordered with sulfur-yellow.

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Via search {{Taxonbar, from=Q772074 Anthocharini Pieridae genera Taxa named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval Taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril Taxa named by Jules Pierre Rambur Taxa named by Adolphe Hercule de Graslin Taxa described in 1833