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The sooty orange tip ''(Zegris eupheme)'' is a Palearctic Pieridae butterfly that has a range that extends through southern Europe, southwest Europe, northern Africa, East Kazakhstan and Asia Minor Global warming currently seems to be extending its range to the north. The habitat consists of open flowery grasslands amongst hills. The wingspan is .〔(BibAlex )〕 Adults have yellow undersides and a patch of orange. They have distinctive grey-black forewing tips. Adults are on wing from mid March to mid June in one generation per year.〔(European Butterflies )〕 The larvae feed on ''Sinapis incana'', ''Raphanus'', ''Sisymbrium polymorphum'' and ''Camelina laxa''. In Morocco, the species is particularly associated with woad (''Isatis tinctoria''), and is found at mid and high elevations in the Middle and High Atlas Mountains. Larvae are often found on the same individual host plant as caterpillars of ''Euchloe'', ''Pieris rapae'' and ''Pieris brassicae''. Compared to these other pierines, ''Z. eupheme'' is associated with very stable environments. ==Description in Seitz== ''Zegris eupheme'' from South-Eastern Russia, Armenia〔Butterfly Conservation Armenia http://www.butterfly-conservation-armenia.org/zegris-eupheme.html〕 and the Alatau, is above white with dark apex to the forewing, bearing an orange-red spot, the black median spot of the forewing being halfmoon-shaped. The orange spot is usually smaller in the female, being sometimes absent. The underside white, the forewing having a yellow apex and a black median spot, the hindwing being greenish yellow, with white spots. Specimens in which these spots are prevalent belong to ab.''tschudica'' H.-Sch. (of ''Zegris eupheme erothoe'' ) — ''menestho'' Mén. from Asia Minor and Western Kurdistan has the underside of the hindwing more yellow, being also somewhat larger. — ''meridionalis'' Led. (nov. ''Zegris meridionalis meridionalis'' Lederer, 1852 ) from Central and South Spain, is still larger, the almost uniformly yellow underside of the hindwing having grey-greenish markings. — Larva thick, cylindrical, densely hairy. Pupa stout, with in a dense cocoon, in which one finds, however, still a remnant of the thread characteristic for pupae of Pierids.〔Julius Röber Pieridae, pp. 39-74, 374, pls. 17-27. In: Seitz, A. (ed.),1909 ''Die Groß-Schmetterlinge der Erde''. 1. Band. Die palaearctischen Tagfalter. – Stuttgart, Fritz Lehmann.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sooty orange tip」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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