Berger's Clouded Yellow | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Pieridae |
Genus: | Colias |
Species: | C. sareptensis |
Binomial name | |
Colias sareptensis Staudinger, 1871 |
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Synonyms | |
Colias alfacariensis Berger, 1948 |
Berger's Clouded Yellow (Colias sareptensis) is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It was separated from the Pale Clouded Yellow, C. hyale, in 1945.
The food plants are Horseshoe Vetch, Hippocrepis comosa and Crown Vetch, Coronilla varia.
This is species is a rare vagrant to Britain.
The caterpillar that forms into this butterfly is green with some black spines on the top. As it matures and prepares to pupate it turns yellow in color.