Anthocharis damone hollaenderi Seyer, 1980

Naderi, Alireza, Back, Werner, Scalercio, Stefano & Nazari, Vazrick, 2025, Higher phylogeny of Orange Tips (Anthocharis) with a focus on population structure in A. damone (Lepidoptera, Pieridae), Ecologica Montenegrina 83, pp. 74-91 : 81-82

Anthocharis damone hollaenderi Seyer, 1980

Anthocharis damone hollaenderi Seyer, 1980 , Mitt. ent. Ges. Basel 30: 1. Type locality: "Jugosl. Mazedonien, Drim-Klisura (Schulscht)" [N Macedonia, Drim Gorge ]

Material examined: North Macedonia: 64♂, 40♀ Skopje , Matka, Treska Canyon ; 3♂, 1♀ Ohrid; 1♀ Struga, Drim Canyon , Macedonia (coll. Back) ; 2♂ Matka , 16.IV.2009 ( CSIC-UPF) ; 1♀ ibid, 22.IV.2009 ( CSIC-UPF) . Serbia: 2♂ Sjenica, Trijebine , 3.VI.2015 ( CSIC-UPF) .

Distribution: Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, Northern Greece, European Turkey.

Differential diagnosis. Macedonia specimens: ♂ ups orange apical patch less red than in nominotypical damone , often extending basally over the black border and towards the anal angle, unfw black basal border of the orange apical patch usually little developed, black discoidal spot mostly inside of the black basal border of the orange apical patch, uphw sometimes orange suffusion from outermargin to postdiscal between vein 2 and 4 (approx. 10 %); ♀ upfw apical patch light and crossed by a series of creamy spots, often with a yellowish-ochre suffusion, sometimes extended until the discoidal spot; uphw costa and sometimes nearly complete uphw with yellowish-ochre suffusion.

Notes. Larval host plant is Isatis tinctoria . The single sample barcoded from Serbia ( MW499531 ) shows a notable COI barcode distance from those in North Macedonia and further sampling of this population is required to confirm its status.