
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