Rhodes, Greece, May 2017
SE Serbia, June 2012
Field notes and information
Two seemingly identical species have been separated on the basis of biochemical and DNA data. To all intents and purposes they are indistinguishable without the access to a modern high tech research laboratory. Please see notes on the bath white, P. daplidice, for more details of this species complex.
Fortunately for those of us who don't have several hundred thousand euros worth of research equipment at home, the ranges of these two species overlap only in a narrow band line running north-south from northwest Italy. Based solely on distribution, I have to named the butterflies in these photos. The current species flies in the east and the bath white P. daplidice in the west.
Crete, Greece, October 2017
Valais, Switzerland, March 2022
Sicily, Italy, May 2018
Valais, Switzerland, June 2022
Rhodes, Greece October 2018
Valais, Switzerland, May 2016
S Greece, July 2007
Rhodes, Greece, May 2017
Rhodes, Greece, May 2017
Crete, Greece, October 2017
S Greece, July 2007
Peloppensos, Greece, June 2013
Valais, Switzerland, May 2020
Rhodes, Greece October 2018