Provence Orange Tip

Anthocharis euphenoides

Male, Gibraltar, February 2007

Female, Val d'Aran, July 2005

Male, Val d'Aran, July 2008

Male, Val d'Aran, July 2003

Male, Gibraltar, April 1983

This lovely little butterfly used to be known as the Moroccan orange tip, Anthocharis belia, subspecies euphenoides. However, it is now widely accepted that it is a separate species from this insect, which flies in Morocco, logically enough. It is found over much of Spain, southern France and parts of Italy and Switzerland, in a single brood that varies enormously in time of emergence. In Gibraltar it flies from mid-February and in the Pyrenees it is still flying at the end of July.