Colotis euippe
Round-winged Orange Tip | |
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C. e. omphale male, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | |
female, uMkhuze Game Reserve, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Colotis |
Species: | C. euippe |
Binomial name | |
Colotis euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) [1] | |
Synonyms | |
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The Round-winged Orange Tip[1] or Smoky Orange Tip.[2] (Colotis euippe) is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone.
The wingspan is 35–45 mm. The adults fly year-round.[2]
The larva feed on Maerua, Capparis, Cadaba, and Boscia species.[2]
Subspecies
The following subspecies are recognised:
- Colotis euippe euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) –Round-winged Orange Tip (southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, northern Angola)
- Colotis euippe mediata Talbot, 1939 (Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, northern and western Zimbabwe)
- Colotis euippe omphale (Godart, 1819) –Smoky Orange Tip (Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Comoros)
- Colotis euippe complexivus (Butler, 1886) (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, southern Somalia)
- Colotis euippe exole (Reiche, 1850) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Somalia, south-western Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
- Colotis euippe mirei Bernardi, 1960 (Tibesti Mountains in Chad)
Life Cycle Gallery
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Larva on Capparis sepiaria
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Larva
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Larva pupating
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Pupa
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Recently hatched from pupa
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Opening wings
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Wings open
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Underside
References
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