Canary Brimstone

The white or yellow butterfly

Moths and butterflies have scaled wings and a four-stage life: egg, caterpillar, pupa, adult. Most named species are known from a handful of specimens and a type locality.

An insect has six legs and, in winged forms, one or two pairs of wings. Most named species in this catalog are known from a type series and a locality, not from a popular field guide.

Range and habitat

The Canary lemon butterfly is a day butterfly native to the Canary Islands, that in older sources is considered a subspecies of the Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra).

GBIF currently lists 1,092 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet

The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.

Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.

In crisis

It is classified as Endangered (VU) at the international level.

Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.

Canary Brimstone is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the Finnish Wikipedia article on Kanariansitruunaperhonen, translated and retold in English, plus Wikidata item Q2772755 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Confirm status and range on iucnredlist.org.