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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows (Pieridae) » Whites (Pierinae) » Marbles and Orangetips (Anthocharidini) » Orangetips (Anthocharis) » Sara Orangetip - Hodges#4206 (Anthocharis sara) » Anthocharis sara sara
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Sara? Orangetip - Anthocharis sara - male
Copyright © 2008 Elliotte Rusty Harold

Sara? Orangetip - Anthocharis sara - Male
Santiago Oaks Regional Park, Orange County, California, USA
March 2, 2008
Size: ~4-5 cm
Couple of these flying around today. Pretty sure it's an Orangetip, but which one?
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Contributed by Elliotte Rusty Harold on 2 March, 2008 - 8:25pm
Last updated 29 April, 2013 - 10:32pm

Moved
Moved from Sara Orangetip.
… David J. Ferguson, 29 April, 2013 - 10:32pm login or register to post comments

Male Sara Orangetip
Looks like a male Sara Orangetip to me. The larger areas of dark marking on the inner wingtip seems to most indicate that species over the Desert Orangetip. The Falcate Orangetip doesn't have hardly any dark markings on the inside such as this.
… Kenneth Dwain Harrelson, 2 March, 2008 - 10:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Subspecies is sara
We now have a new BG page for it.
… Ron Hemberger, 15 April, 2008 - 10:44am login or register to post comments

 
Nice shot!
Later in the same month, there are a lot of these flying at Santiago Oaks and nectaring on mustard. (Last year, I saw zero there.
… Ron Hemberger, 12 April, 2008 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes, I saw some there last we
Yes, I saw some there last week (a month after this one) too, and today I saw one in the Butterfly Garden at San Joaquin.
… Elliotte Rusty Harold, 13 April, 2008 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

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