Colias nebulosa
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. nebulosa |
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| Colias nebulosa Oberthür, 1894 [1] | |
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Colias nebulosa is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the East Palearctic (Tibet and China).
Description
Colias nebulosa is much darker than Colias sifanica; the forewing without middle spot, but with light spot at the distal margin; the hindwing almost uniformly black, with large,conspicuous, light yellow middle spot, and light ray-like spots on the veins. We regard nebulosa as a distinct species.[2]
Subspecies
- C. n. nebulosa Sichuan
- C. n. karoensis Hoshiai & Rose, 1998 S. Tibet
- C. n. niveata Verity, [1909] Qinghai
- C. n. pugo Evans, 1924 S. E.Tibet
- C. n. richthofeni O. Bang-Haas, 1927 Richthofen Mts., Kukunor Mts
- C. n. sungpani O. Bang-Haas, 1927 Sichuan, Gansu
Taxonomy
Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas [3]
References
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- ↑ Colias, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Röber, Julius (1906). Pieridae, pp. 39-74, 374, pls. 17-27. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), Die Groß-Schmetterlinge der Erde. 1. Band. Die palaearctischen Tagfalter. Stuttgart, Fritz Lehmann.
- ↑ 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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