Butterflies of Norway

ANTHOCARIS CARDAMINES

English name:	Orange Tip
Norwegian name:	Aurorasommerfugl
Auctor:	(Linnaeus, 1758)
Original description:	as Papilio Danaus cardamines in Syst.Nat. (Edn. 10) I: 468.
Syn.:	- - -
Type locality of nominate species:	Sweden.
Worldwide distribution:	Europe through Middle East and temperate parts of Asia to Japan.
Subspecies in Norway:	A. c. cardamines.
Recognized subspecies:	A.c.cardamines (Linnaeus, 1758) - West Europe to West Siberia
	A.c.hesperidis Newnham, 1894 - England
	A.c.hiberica Williams, 1915 - Ireland
	A.c.catalonica Sagarra, ?year - Spain
	A.c.meridionalis (Verity, 1908) - Italy, ?Sardinia
	A.c.turritiferens Verity, 1923 - Sicily
	A.c.speziosa Röber, 1907 - Austria - southern Steiermark
	A.c.hellas Hemming, 1933 - Greece, Balkan
	A.c.ondrii Kattulas & Koutsaftikis, 1978 - Greece; Kastelloriso Is.
	A.c.phoenissa von Kalchberg, 1895 - Middle East
	A.c.progressa (Sovinsky, 1905) - Siberia, Altai, Sayan, Transbaikalia
	A.c.septentrionalis Vnukovsky, 1927 - Russian Far East
	A.c.phoenissa von Kalchberg, 1894 - ?Kopet-Dagh
	A.c.alexandra (Hemming, 1933) - Tian-Shan, Ghissar, Darvaz, Alai
	A.c.koreana Matsumura, 1937 - Amur, Ussuri
	A.c.kobayashii Matsumura, 1925 - Sakhalin Is.

A. cardamines cardamines
Auctor:	(Linnaeus, 1758)
Syn.:	- - -
Type locality of subspecies:	Sweden.
Distribution in Norway:	South Norway as well as some records from North Norway.
Notes:	A. cardamines is a common species in the spring.
Described forms found in Norway:	- - -
Etymology:	cardamines = cress.

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