What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Orange-tip been recorded?

Anthocharis cardamines occurrence evidence comes from 107,399 records in 43 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Belgium.

Orange-tip
Orange-tip — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraPieridaeAnthocharis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

107,399 records across 43 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Anthocharis cardamines · GBIF taxon key 1919712

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

3 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

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Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Orange-tip has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Orange-tip. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Belgium 50,715
Sweden 38,568
Germany 5,659
United Kingdom 4,330
Luxembourg 3,093
Austria 2,379
Spain 621
France 530
Romania 340
Ireland 236
Israel 187
Netherlands 121
Finland 120
Italy 86
Switzerland 76
Denmark 75
Czechia 41
Russia 38
Bulgaria 31
Liechtenstein 25
Andorra 22
Isle of Man 20
Hungary 14
Poland 10
Greece 7
Türkiye 7
Slovakia 6
Norway 5
Bosnia & Herzegovina 4
Estonia 4
Croatia 4
Latvia 4
Uzbekistan 4
Slovenia 3
Ukraine 3
Lithuania 2
Nepal 2
ZZ 2
Azerbaijan 1
Belarus 1

Showing the top 40 of 43 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.