Colias tamerlana
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Arthropoda | 
| Class: | Insecta | 
| Order: | Lepidoptera | 
| Family: | Pieridae | 
| Genus: | Colias | 
| Species: | C. tamerlana | 
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|  Colias  tamerlana Staudinger, 1897 [1]  | |
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Colias tamerlana is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the East Palearctic ( W.Siberia, N. China and Mongolia).
Description
A large and very dark Colias.
Biology
The larva feeds on Oxytropis oligantha
Subspecies
- C. t. tamerlana Xinjiang, Kirgizia (E.Issyk Kul)
 - C. t. mongola Alphéraky, 1897 Altai, Sayan
 - C. t. sidonia Weiss, 1968 N. Mongolia
 
Taxonomy
Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas [2] May be a subspecies of Colias nastes [3]
References
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Colias tamerlana. | 
| Wikispecies has information related to: Colias tamerlana | 
- ↑ 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.
 - ↑ O. G. Gorbunov , 2012 On the nomenclature of Colias nastes mongola Alphéraky, 1897 and Colias tamerlana Staudinger, 1897 (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) Entomological Review Volume 92, Issue 5, pp 559-564
 
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