Anthocharis midea midea (Hübner, [1809])

Pavulaan, Harry, 2024, Notes on North American Butterflies. 1., The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 11 (8), pp. 1-25 : 22

Anthocharis midea midea (Hübner, [1809])

– This is a highly polytypic grouping, consisting of varying sizes of male orange apical-patched individuals. Percentages of localized populations displaying small, intermediate or large apical patches fluctuates widely across the entire region shown here as midea . A most interesting finding was that large and intermediate-patched individuals dominate the central region of the species, with small-patched variants being much less frequent than in eastern ( annickae) or western ( texana) portions of the species range. The range of ssp. midea shown here is considerably larger than has been traditionally considered - just along the southeastern coastal region where large-patched individuals are more frequent (Gatrelle, 1998), but is best defined as the region where the large and intermediate-patched variant forms occur. Males with orange-tinted hindwings show maximum development of dorsal orange coloration.