Colias arida

Colias arida
a. male, b. female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colias
Species:	C. arida
Binomial name
Colias arida Alphéraky, 1889
Synonyms
Colias eogene var. aridaAlphéraky, 1889 Colias eogene ab. aurithemeGrum-Grshimailo, 1893 Colias cocandica irmaEvans, 1924 Colias arida var. wandaGrum-Grshimailo, 1893

Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.

Taxonomy

Treated as a form of Colias eogene by Röber and described as "paler than eogene, the apex of the forewing being more rounded; among this form there occur as aberrations aurithetne Gr.-Grsh. males with yellow-spotted distal margin, and wanda Gr.-Grsh. light-coloured males." ^[1] It was accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas in 2007. ^[2]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:

• C. a. arida
• C. a. cakanaRose & Schulte, 1992
• C. a. muetingiRose & Schulte, 1992
• C. a. wandaGrum-Grshimailo, 1893 - may be a full species as Colias wanda

References

1. Julius Röber in Seitz, A. 1906 The Macrolepidoptera of the world; a systematic description of the hitherto known Macrolepidoptera Volume 1 The Palearctic Butterflies Stuttgart : Seitz'schen (Kernen)
2. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-14.