Could be, but with all the knowledge about the difficulties to separate and sometimes conflicting results of the ranges, I personally would go with Leptidea sp.. For the separation of Duponchali and Sinapis we would need an antennae close-up and the other ones in the complex are impossible to ID without genital examination and/or DNA.
hahahaha butterflies in Croatia are not calm, it didn't want to show me other parts of body :D I am suffering with this butterfly for a month, and came to same result as you are. It was spotted in beech and hornbeam forest, in mountain, and I thought it is closest to L. sinapsis. Can it be?
Pieridae, Dismorphinae, Leptidea sp. Tricky one! It is either L. sinapis/reali/juvernica (complex) or L. duponchali. Do you have a closer shot of the antennae? Or DNA/genitals? ;-)...
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