Biology:Colias flaveola

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Short description: Species of butterfly


Colias flaveola
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Row h, 5th butterfly
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species:
C. flaveola
Binomial name
Colias flaveola
Blanchard, 1852[1]
Synonyms
  • Colias weberbaueri Strand, 1912
  • Colias euxanthe alticola ab. virescens Rothschild, 1913
  • Colias euxanthe nigerrima Fassl, 1915
  • Colias mossi Rothschild, 1913
  • Colias blameyi Jörgensen, 1916
  • Colias mendozina Breyer, 1939

Colias flaveola is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Tropical Andes subregion of the Neotropical realm.

Description

Colias flaveola is pale orange yellow in the female, in the rather broad dark distal margin of the forewing are placed four large yellowish-white subapical spots, the under surface has dull sulphur-yellow ground colour. Deeper orange-yellow coloured female specimens are common.

Subspecies

  • C. f. flaveola Chile
  • C. f. weberbaueri Strand, 1912 Peru, Bolivia
  • C. f. mossi Rothschild, 1913 Peru
  • C. f. blameyi Jörgensen, 1916 Argentina
  • C. f. mendozina Breyer, 1939 Argentina
  • C. f. erika Lamas, 1981 Peru

Taxonomy

Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas.[2]

References

  1. Colias, Site of Markku Savela
  2. Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas (2007). "A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 97: 131–171. http://museohn.unmsm.edu.pe/body/content/departamentos/entomologia/entomologia/grieshuber_2007-Colias.pdf. Retrieved 2013-05-17. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2675944 entry