Colias flaveola

Colias flaveola
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species: C. flaveola
Binomial name
Colias flaveola
Blanchard, 1852[1]
Synonyms
  • Colias weberbaueri Strand, 1912
  • Colias euxanthe alticola ab. virescens Rothschild, 1913
  • Colias euxanthe nigerrima Fassl, 1915
  • Colias mossi Rothschild, 1913
  • Colias blameyi Jörgensen, 1916
  • Colias mendozina Breyer, 1939

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

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]

References

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  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.

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