Colias felderi

Colias felderi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species: C. felderi
Binomial name
Colias felderi
Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 [1]

Colias felderi is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Tibet and China.

Description

Colias felderi is light orange-red, with a black margin, which is traversed by the yellow veins at the apex of the wing, and with a black middle spot. The hindwing has a yellowish band before the black distal margin. The underside, which has nothing distinctive, is without submarginal spots.

Taxonomy

Originally described as Colias species felderi Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 "in regione Amdo dicta, in montibus ad Sinin" Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas [2]

Etymology

The name honours Rudolf Felder.

References

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  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.


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