Biology:Colias leechi
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Colias leechi | |
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| dorsal side; scalebar=1 cm | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. leechi
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| Binomial name | |
| Colias leechi Grum-Grshimailo, 1893[1]
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Colias leechi is a very little known butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described from the East Palearctic "In ramificationibus occidentalibus montium Himalayensium in valle Chonging" (17,000 feet (5,200 m) altitude).[2]
Chongqing covers a large area crisscrossed by rivers and mountains. None are high enough to fit the description and Röber gives Sikkim as the locality[3] and the British Museum card gives the type locality as West Himalaya Ladak.
Taxonomy
Described as a variety of Colias eogene. The Global Lepidoptera Names Index treats leechi as Colias staudingeri ssp. leechi. Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas [4]
References
- ↑ Colias, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Grum-Grshimailo, (1893). Lepidoptera nova in Asia centrali novissime lecta et descripta. Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 27:382
- ↑ Julius Röber in Seitz, A. 1906 The Macrolepidoptera of the world; a systematic description of the hitherto known Macrolepidoptera Volume 1 The Palearctic Butterflies Stuttgart : Seitz'schen (Kernen)
- ↑ 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 2013-05-18.
Wikidata ☰ Q3238892 entry
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