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Artogeia krueperi

Krueper's Small White

Field Notes

NW, Greece, August 2008

Kastoria, Greece, May 2004 (m)

Dull cool weather prevented this butterfly performing any better than this.

This is a very smart butterfly. It is one of the Small Whites (Artogeia) but is by far the most distinctive. Its upperside black markings are unlike any other and the underside hindwing (of which I do not yet have any photos) is a very distinctive solid green in the basal half of the wing with white patches further out.

I've only found it at two places in NW Greece. Both sites were on steep but rocky hillsides with bushes and sparse grasses. It doesn't appear to be very common anywhere and is known to be very local but it is allegedly widespread across the southern and central Balkans.

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