Colias hyperborea

Colias hyperborea

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species: C. hyperborea
Binomial name
Colias hyperborea
Grum-Grshimailo, 1899 [1]
Synonyms
  • Colias hyperborea alba Sheljuzhko, 1923
  • Colias hyperborea viluiensoides Verity, [1909]
  • Colias tunkuna Austaut, 1912

Colias hyperborea is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the East Palearctic.

Description

Colias hyperborea is golden red or golden yellow above in the male, having rarely a bluish gloss ; costal margin of forewing and inner margin of hindwing sulphur-yellow, distal margin of forewing broadly blackish brown, dusted with sulphur-yellow, the "sex-mark" at the costal margin of the hindwing large, elongate, reddish, the black middle spot of the forewing elongate, often large, the middle spot of the hindwing large, golden red, fringes of forewing rosy red, of hindwing often sulphur-yellow. Underside of forewing light golden red, paler at the inner margin, greenish sulphur-yellow at the costal and distal margins, very little dusted with black, hindwing greenish, the silvery middle spot thinly edged with red-brown. The female is darkened above by greenish or blackish scaling, the distal marginal band bearing 7 sulphur-yellow or yellow spots; hindwing darkened, the distal marginal band with large sulphur or golden yellow spots, which often form a band; fringe and costa of forewing rosy red. The underside of the hindwing yellowish greenish, the veins being bluish, the middle spot silvery, small, and thinly edged with red-brown.

Biology

The larva feeds on Astragalus alpinus and Oxytropis czukotica . Flies in June and July.

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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