About Anthocharis damone Boisduval, 1836
According to Seitz's description, Anthocharis damone Boisduval, 1836, which is found in South Italy, Sicily, the southern Balkans, Asia Minor and Syria, is sexually dimorphic. Males are lemon-yellow on both the upper and lower sides of the wings. Their forewings have a narrowly black apex, a large deep orange-red apical patch with a more or less dark proximal edge, and a large black median spot. The underside of the male hindwing is a deeper yellow, marked with grey-greenish patterns. Females are white on the upper side and on the underside of the forewing, and have a broader blackish apex on the upperside of the forewing.
The form pallida, a newly named form, occurs in Mesopotamia. Males of this form are somewhat paler yellow on the upper side; the dark apex of the forewing is strongly mixed with red, the orange patch is less fiery and only dark-edged within the cell, the black median spot is smaller and less prominent, the ground color of the underside of the hindwing is lighter yellow, and the dark markings are more merged into isolated patches. For female pallida, the black median spot of the forewing is smaller and less sharply defined on both sides, and the underside of the hindwing is lighter yellow.
In Armenia, Anthocharis damone inhabits mountain steppes and also occurs in juniper woodlands, found at elevations ranging from 1200 to 2200 m above sea level.
