Colias flaveola

Colias flaveola
	Row h, 5th butterfly
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pieridae
Genus:	Colias
Species:	C. flaveola
Binomial name
	Colias flaveola; Blanchard, 1852
Synonyms
	Colias weberbaueriStrand, 1912; Colias euxanthe alticola ab. virescensRothschild, 1913; Colias euxanthe nigerrimaFassl, 1915; Colias mossiRothschild, 1913; Colias blameyiJörgensen, 1916; Colias mendozinaBreyer, 1939;

Last updated December 06, 2025

Colias flaveola is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Tropical Andes subregion of the Neotropical realm.

Description

Colias flaveola is pale orange yellow in the female, in the rather broad dark distal margin of the forewing are placed four large yellowish-white subapical spots, the under surface has dull sulphur-yellow ground colour. Deeper orange-yellow coloured female specimens are common.

Subspecies

C. f. flaveola Chile
C. f. weberbaueriStrand, 1912 Peru, Bolivia
C. f. mossiRothschild, 1913 Peru
C. f. blameyiJörgensen, 1916 Argentina
C. f. mendozinaBreyer, 1939 Argentina
C. f. erikaLamas, 1981 Peru

Taxonomy

Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas.^[2]

References

↑ Colias, Site of Markku Savela
↑ 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 2013-05-17.

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[funet-1] Colias, Site of Markku Savela

[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 2013-05-17.

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