Anthocharis cethura

Anthocharis cethura
Desert Orangetip
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Tribe: Anthocharini
Genus: Anthocharis
Species: A. cethura
Subspecies: A. c. cethura
Trinomial name
Anthocharis cethura cethura
C. & R. Felder, 1865

The Desert Orangetip, Anthocharis cethura cethura, is a butterfly of the Pierinae subfamily. It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it lives in hills and ridges.[1] Its caterpillars mostly eat plants of the mustard family.[1]

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