Colias fieldii
| Colias fieldii | |
|---|---|
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| Ménétries original illustration (number 5) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Family: | Pieridae | 
| Genus: | Colias | 
| Species: | C. fieldii | 
| Binomial name | |
|  Colias fieldii  Ménétriés, 1855[1]  | |
Colias fieldii is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in southern Iran, India, southern China, Indochina, and Ussuri.
Biology
The larvae feed on Leguminosae species.
Subspecies
- C. f. fieldii Yunnan
 - C. f. chinensis Verity, 1909 S.Ussuri
 
Taxonomy
Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas [2]
References
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Colias fieldii. | 
| Wikispecies has information related to: Colias fieldii | 
- ↑ Colias, Site of Markku Savela
 - ↑ 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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