Colias heos

Colias heos
upperside
underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species: C. heos
Binomial name
Colias heos
Herbst, 1792 [1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio aurora Esper, 1783 (preocc.)
  • Colias aurora ab. obscura Moltrecht, 1909
  • Colias sibirica Lederer, 1852
  • Colias kenteana Rühl, 1895
  • Colias semenovi Shtandel, 1960

Colias heos is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the East Palearctic (Altai to S.Siberia, Mongolia to Ussuri, SE.China).

Female

Description

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 colourof 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.

Biology

The larva feeds on Vicia, Astragalus, Trifolium lucanicum

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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