Family | Pieridae |
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Subfamily | Pierinae |
Genus | Anthocharis |
Species | euphenoides |
Authority | Staudinger, 1869 |
English Name | Provence Orange-tip |
European Red List 2010 | Least Concern (LC) |
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EU 27 Red List 2010 | Least Concern (LC) |
European Red List 2025 | Least Concern (LC) |
EU 27 Red List 2025 | Least Concern (LC) |
Habitats Directive | |
Bern Convention | |
CITES |
This butterfly inhabits warm, dry places with flower-rich, grassy vegetation and scattered bushes. Eggs are laid one by one on the flowerbuds of various crucifers, such as the buckler mustards Biscutella laevigata and B. auriculata, London Rocket (Sisymbrium irio), and Hedge Mustard (S. officinale). The caterpillars feed mainly on ovaries, but at times are also cannibalistic. This species hibernates as a pupa and has one generation a year.
Andorra / France / France: Mainland / Italy / Italy: Mainland / Portugal / Portugal: Mainland / Spain / Spain: Mainland / Spain: Balearic Islands / Switzerland (Irregular Vagrant) / United Kingdom: Gibraltar /