Colotis
Colotis | |
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Colotis danae | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Subfamily: | Pierinae |
Tribe: | Colotini |
Genus: | Colotis Hübner, [1819] |
Species | |
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Colotis, called Orange Tips or Arabs, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae found mainly in Africa and southwestern Asia.[1]
Species
Listed alphabetically within subgroups.[2]
Subgenus Colotis Hübner, [1819]:
- Colotis amata (Fabricius, 1775) – Topaz Arab or Small Salmon Arab
- Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836) – Large Orange Tip or Red Tip
- Colotis aurigineus (Butler, 1883) – African Golden, Arab Veined, or Gold Double-banded Orange
- Colotis aurora (Cramer, [1780]) – Plain Orange Tip
- Colotis auxo (Lucas, 1852) – Sulphur Orange Tip or Yellow Orange Tip
- Colotis celimene (Lucas, 1852) – Lilac Tip or Magenta Tip
- Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829) – Golden Arab
- Colotis daira (Klug, 1829) – Black-Marked Orange Tip
- Colotis danae (Fabricius, 1775) – Scarlet Tip or Crimson Tip
- Colotis dissociatus (Butler, 1897)
- Colotis doubledayi (Hopffer, 1862) – Doubleday's Tip
- Colotis elgonensis (Sharpe, 1891) – Elgon Crimson Tip
- Colotis ephyia (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis erone (Angas, 1849) – Coast Purple Tip
- Colotis etrida (Boisduval, 1836) – (Small) Orange Tip
- Colotis eucharis (Fabricius, 1775) – Plain Orange Tip or Sulphur Orange Tip
- Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – Round Winged Orange Tip
- Colotis eunoma (Hopffer, 1855) – Three Spot Crimson Tip
- Colotis evagore (Klug, 1829) – Desert Orange Tip, Small Orange Tip or Tiny Orange Tip
- Colotis evanthe (Boisduval, 1836) – Madagascar Orange-Tip
- Colotis evanthides (Holland, 1896)
- Colotis evenina (Wallengren, 1857) – Common Orange Tip
- Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804) – (Large) Salmon Arab
- Colotis guenei (Mabille, 1877) – Madagascar Red-Tip
- Colotis halimede (Klug, 1829) – Yellow Patch, White Orange Patch White, White and Orange Halimede, or Dappled White
- Colotis hetaera (Gerstaecker, 1871) – Crimson Tip or Coast Purple Tip
- Colotis hildebrandti (Staudinger, 1885) – Golden Tip
- Colotis incretus (Butler, 1881)
- Colotis ione (Godart, 1819) – Bushveld Purple Tip, (Common) Purple Tip or Violet Tip
- Colotis lais (Butler, 1876)
- Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis mananhari (Ward, 1870) – Chevron White
- Colotis pallene (Hopffer, 1855) – Bushveld Orange Tip
- Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819) – Blue-spotted Arab or Variable Colotis
- Colotis protractus Butler, 1876
- Colotis pleione (Klug, 1829) – Orange Patch White
- Colotis protomedia (Klug, 1829) – Yellow Splendour
- Colotis regina (Trimen, 1863) – Large Violet Tip, Regal Purple Tip, or Queen Purple Tip
- Colotis rogersi (Dixey, 1915) – Rogers' Orange Tip
- Colotis ungemachi (Le Cerf, 1922)
- Colotis venosa (Staudinger, 1885) – No Patch White
- Colotis vesta (Reiche, 1849) – Veined Orange, Veined Tip, or Veined Golden Arab
- Colotis vestalis (Butler, 1876) – White Arab
- Colotis zoe (Grandidier, 1867) – Violet-Tip
Subgenus Teracolus (Swainson, 1833):
- Colotis eris (Klug, 1829) – Banded Gold Tip or Black-barred Gold Tip
- Colotis subfasciatus (Swainson, 1833) – Lemon Traveller or Lemon Tip
Subgenus Cuneacolotis (Henning et al., 1997):
- Colotis agoye (Wallengren, 1857) – Speckled Sulfur Tip
Subgenus Gideona (Klots, 1933):
- Colotis lucasi (Grandidier, 1867) – Giant Orange-Tip
Status Unknown:
- Colotis fallax (Wichgraf, 1913), described from East Africa.
References
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External links
- Pteron Images
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 16 et seq.
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