Colias arida

Colias arida
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species: C. arida
Binomial name
Colias arida
Alferaki, 1889
Synonyms
  • Colias eogene var. arida Alphéraky, 1889
  • Colias eogene ab. auritheme Grum-Grshimailo, 1893
  • Colias cocandica irma Evans, 1924
  • Colias arida var. wanda Grum-Grshimailo, 1893

Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and West China.

Taxonomy

Treated as a form of Colias eogene by Röber and described as "paler than eogene, the apex of the forewing being more rounded ; among this form there occur as aberrations aurithetne Gr.-Grsh. males with yellow-spotted distal margin, and wanda Gr.-Grsh. light-coloured males."[1] Accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas, 2007 [2]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.

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. 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.

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