Colias flaveola

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Colias flaveola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species:
C. flaveola
Binomial name
Colias flaveola
Blanchard, 1852 [1]
Synonyms
  • Colias weberbaueriStrand, 1912
  • Colias euxanthe alticola ab. virescensRothschild, 1913
  • Colias euxanthe nigerrimaFassl, 1915
  • Colias mossiRothschild, 1913
  • Colias blameyiJörgensen, 1916
  • Colias mendozinaBreyer, 1939

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

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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

Taxonomy

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

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References

  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.