Colias flaveola
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. flaveola |
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| Colias flaveola Blanchard, 1852[1] | |
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Colias flaveola is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the Tropical Andes subregion of the Neotropical ecozone.
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
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- ↑ 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.
External links
- Butterflies of America type images
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