Phoebis philea, the Orange-barred Sulphur, is found in most of the Americas including the Caribbean.
   They are swift, high fliers usually found in open lowland sites such as gardens, forest edges, parks, and road edges.
   They are found residing from Brazil north to peninsular Florida and the Keys. Irregular wanderer to south Texas; extremely rare vagrant in Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Connecticut.
   There are two or three flights in Florida, one in northern range from mid-late summer.
   There are two to three generations per year in Florida and one in the northern part of the range with adults on wing from mid to late summer.
   The species habitat is in tropical scrub, gardens, fields, and forest edges.
   Orange-barred sulphurs are often found in large dense groups of mixed species, including the Statira Sulphur (Aphrissa statira), Apricot Sulphur (Phoebis argante), and the Straight-line Sulphur (Rhabdodryas trite).
    The dorsal side of males is bright yellow orange. The forewing has red orange bar and hindwing has red orange outer margin.
   The two forms of the female, one off white and the other yellow orange, are much larger than the male. Both have dorsal forewings with a solid black cell spot and a submarginal row of broken, angled black smudges. The outer half of hindwing of  the yellow form is red orange.
   Both sexes appear markedly different.