Anthocharis stella, the stella orangetip, is a species of butterfly found mainly in the Rocky Mountains in the United States where its caterpillar feeds on different kinds of rock cress.[1] It has two subspecies.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Anthocharis |
| Species: | A. stella
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| Binomial name | |
| Anthocharis stella (Edwards, 1872)
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References
edit- ^ Shepard, Jon; Guppy, Crispin (2011-11-01). Butterflies of British Columbia: Including Western Alberta, Southern Yukon, the Alaska Panhandle, Washington, Northern Oregon, Northern Idaho, and Northwestern Montana. UBC Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-7748-4437-6.
External links
edit- Stella orangetip, Butterflies of Canada
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