Colias chlorocoma

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Colias chlorocoma
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species:
C. chlorocoma
Binomial name
Colias chlorocoma
Christoph, 1888
Synonyms
  • Colias chlorocoma ochraceaVerhulst, 1993
  • Colias chlorocoma ♀ ab. sulphureaMiller, [1913]
  • Colias chlorocoma aladagensisVerhulst, 1993

Colias chlorocoma is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Transcaucasia, Turkey and Iran.

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Taxonomy

Originally described as Colias chlorocoma Christoph, 1888. Röber considered C. chlorocoma to be an apparently very rare, local form of Colias libanotica - "C. chlorocoma Christ., from Southern Armenia (Kasikoparan), is presumably a local form of libanotica ; it is large, the ground-colour being greenish in the male, white in the female. Apparently very rare." [1] Treated as a species of Colias Fabricius, 1807 by Tuzov et al. [2]

Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas [3] consider that C. chlorocoma is very closely related to and possibly conspecific with Colias sagartia but androconial spots are rare in chlorocoma and males have yellow spots in the marginal band. The flight, the biotopes, and the foodplants of the two taxa are identical. C. chlorocoma is rather variable, in particular the green wing pigmentation differs from population to population but is usually greenish-yellow, C. sagartia is greenish.

Oorschot, H. & Wagener, S. treat all the subspecies as junior synonyms [4]

Subspecies

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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. ↑ Tuzov et al., 1997 Guide to the butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories. Volume 1. Pensoft, Sofia - Moscow.
  3. ↑ 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 2013-05-15.
  4. ↑ Oorschot, H. & Wagener, S. 1995 Die Tagfalter der Türkei unter Berücksichtigung der angrenzenden Länder. Bocholt, Sigbert Wagener. 3 vols.


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