The female is larger, with a more greenish colour, a consequence of the superposition of black and yellow scales.

Widely distributed and mainly western, from Northwest Africa, Iberian Peninsula, S and SE of France, N of Italy, Ligurian Alps to Bologna.

In Sierra Nevada (Spain) they have been observed even above 2500 m altitude, although in these populations there is only one annual reproduction, and their density is low.

The specimens of this mountainous area were described by Heinrich Ribbe, in 1905, as a differentiated subspecies, under the name of Euchloe alhambra , although it has been rejected that there are differences that justify such a presumption.

Likes open, warm and dry areas, and in rural lands, preferably cultivated.