Colias tyche

Booth's sulphur
Female
Male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Tribe: Coliadini
Genus: Colias
Species: C. tyche
Binomial name
Colias tyche
(de Böber, 1812)
Synonyms
  • Colias melinos Eversmann, 1847

Colias tyche, the Booth's sulphur or pale Arctic clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found from Baffin Island west along the Hudson Bay and arctic coasts of the Nunavut and Northwest Territories mainland and the southern tier of Arctic Islands to northern Yukon, Alaska, and Eurasia.[1]

The wingspan is 28–43 mm.[1]

The butterfly flies in June to August depending on the location.[1]

The larvae feed on legume species.

Subspecies

Both of the Nearctic subspecies Colias tyche boothii (Booth's sulphur) and Colias tyche thula (Thula sulphur) are treated as valid species by some authors.

Similar species

References

  1. 1 2 3 Booth's Sulphur, Butterflies of Canada
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