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Melanargia occitanica

Western Marbled White

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Pyrénées Orientales, France, May 2006

 

Bouches du Rhone, France, May 2006

 

Bouches du Rhone, France, May 2005

 

Alpes de Haute Provence, France, May 2005

 

Pyrénées Orientales, France, May 2006

 

Provence, France, May 2002

 

Les Alpilles, S France, April 2004

 

Provence, France, May 2002
 

Provence, France, May 2002

 

This is found in north Africa, Spain and southern France with an out flung population in western Sicily. In Sicily there is speculation that this subspecies, pherusa, is an evolutionary intermediate between occitancia occitancia to the west and the Italian Marbled White, arge, to the east.

In north Africa it is common in Morocco in May. It is also widespread and common in places in southern France at the same time. The brown lines on the underside hindwing are distinctive to this species.

 

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