| Colias arida | |
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| a. male, b. female | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. arida |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias arida Alphéraky, 1889 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.
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]
Listed alphabetically:
Colias hyale, the pale clouded yellow, is a butterfly of the family Pieridae, which is found in most of Europe and large parts of the Palearctic. It is a rare migrant to the British Isles and Scandinavia. The adult wingspan is 52–62 millimetres (2.0–2.4 in).
Colias is a genus of butterflies in the family Pieridae. They are often called clouded yellows in the Palearctic and sulphurs in North America. The closest living relative is the genus Zerene, which is sometimes included in Colias.
Colias chippewa, the heath sulphur, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in North America and northeastern Asia. Its range includes Alaska across northern Canada, including all the territories, and as far east as Labrador. and the Russian Far East.
Colias chlorocoma is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Transcaucasia, Turkey and Iran.
Colias felderi is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Tibet and China.
Colias flaveola is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Tropical Andes subregion of the Neotropical realm.
Colias grumi is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in north-western China.
Colias heos is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the East Palearctic.
Colias hyperborea is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the East Palearctic.
Colias lada is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the East Palearctic.
Colias leechi is a very little known butterfly in the family Pieridae. It was described from the East Palearctic "In ramificationibus occidentalibus montium Himalayensium in valle Chonging".
Colias lesbia is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Neotropical realm.
Colias montium is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the eastern Palearctic realm.
Colias nebulosa is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the eastern Palearctic realm.
Colias sifanica is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the eastern Palearctic realm.
Colias regia is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the East Palearctic.
Colias romanovi is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the eastern Palearctic realm.
Colias wanda is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the eastern Palearctic realm.
Colias adelaidae is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the eastern Palearctic realm.
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