| Colias heos | |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. heos |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias heos | |
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Colias heos is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the East Palearctic (Altai to southern Siberia, Mongolia to Ussuri, southeastern China).
C. aurora (heos) is a beautiful dark orange-red species. The veins are thinly black, being yellow however in the black marginal band. The hindwing is somewhat dusky, being again lighter before the black distal margin; the costa of the forewing is yellow, the moderately large middle spot of the forewing pale centred, the large orange-red middle spot of the hindwing contrasting with the ground. The underside of a beautiful yellow, with sparse markings, the black middle spot of the forewing pale centred, and that of the hindwing the colour of mother of pearl, edged with brownish, being sometimes double. The female has the ground colour orange red, or yellow, or white; the white females are named ab. chloe Eversmann; in the marginal band there are yellow spots, which are often united on the hindwing to form a band. decolorata Staudinger, from Dauria, is a lighter coloured local form.
The larva feeds on Vicia , Astragalus , Trifolium lucanicum
Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas [2]
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Colias nastes, the Labrador sulphur, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. In Europe, it is found in the north of Norway and Sweden and on rare occasions in northern Finland. It is also found in North America, specifically in Alaska, Canada, and the Rocky Mountains, Washington, Montana and on Greenland. In Asia, it is found in the Altai Mountains, the border regions of Russia, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, the Sayan Mountains, the north of Siberia, and in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.
Colias chlorocoma is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Transcaucasia, Turkey and Iran.
Colias viluiensis, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Transbaikalia.
Colias felderi is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in Tibet and China.
Colias fieldii, the dark clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in southern Iran, India, southern China, Indochina, and Ussuri.
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 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 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.
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