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.