Colias tyche
| Booth's Sulphur | |
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| Male | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Tribe: | Coliadini |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. tyche |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias tyche (de Böber, 1812) | |
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The Booth's Sulphur or Pale Arctic Clouded Yellow (Colias tyche) is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found from Baffin Island west along the Hudson Bay and arctic coasts of the Nunavut and Northwest Territories mainland and the southern tier of Arctic Islands to northern Yukon, Alaska, and Eurasia.[1]
The butterfly flies in June to August depending on the location.[1]
The larvae feed on legume species.
Subspecies
- Colias tyche tyche (northern Eurasia)
- Colias tyche relicta Kurentzov, 1970 (Chukot Peninsula, Far East)
- Colias tyche werdandi Zetterstedt, 1839 (northern Europe)
- Colias tyche magadanica Churkin, Grieshuber, Bogdanov & Zamolodchikov, 2001 (Magadan)
- Colias tyche flinti Churkin, Grieshuber, Bogdanov & Zamolodchikov, 2001 (Wrangel Island)
- Colias tyche olga Churkin, Grieshuber, Bogdanov & Zamolodchikov, 2001 (East Chukotka)
- Colias tyche boothii Curtis, 1835 (Northwest Territories, Yukon, Baffin Island, Victoria Island, Banks Island, Alaska)
- Colias tyche thula Hovanitz, 1955 (Alaska and in Canada on Banks, Victoria and Melville Islands) may be a full species.
Both of the Nearctic subspecies Colias tyche boothii (Booth's Sulphur) and Colias tyche thula (Thula Sulphur) are treated as valid species by some authors.
Similar species
- Hecla Sulphur (C. hecla)
- Labrador Sulphur (C. nastes)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Booth's Sulphur, Butterflies of Canada
References
- Churkin, S., Grieshuber, J ., Bogdanov, P. & Zamolodchikov, D. (2001). Taxonomic notes on Colias tyche Böber, 1812 and Colias nastes Boisduval, 1832 (Lepidoptera, Pieridae) from the Russian Far East with the descriptions of new subspecies. Helios 2:103-116, pls.8-10.
- Churkin, S., Grieshuber, J ., Bogdanov, P. & Zamolodchikov, D. (2001). Ein Ersatzname für eine kürzlich beschriebene Unterart von Colias tyche Böber, 1912 (Lepidoptera, Pieridae). Atalanta 32(1/2):262-263.
External links
- Booth's Sulphur, Neactica.com
- Booth's Sulphur, Alaska, Butterflies and moths of North America
- State Darwin Museum Darwin Museum type specimen images of Colias tyche olga Churkin, Greishuber, Bogdanov et Zamolodchikov, 2001