Colias arida
| Colias arida | |
|---|---|
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| a. male, b. female | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. arida |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias arida Alphéraky, 1889 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.
Taxonomy
Treated as a form of Colias eogene by Röber and described as "paler than eogene, the apex of the forewing being more rounded; among this form there occur as aberrations aurithetne Gr.-Grsh. males with yellow-spotted distal margin, and wanda Gr.-Grsh. light-coloured males."[1] It was accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas in 2007.[2]
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically:
- C. a. arida
- C. a. cakana Rose & Schulte, 1992
- C. a. muetingi Rose & Schulte, 1992
- C. a. wanda Grum-Grshimailo, 1893 - may be a full species as Colias wanda
References
- ↑ Julius Röber in Seitz, A. 1906 The Macrolepidoptera of the world; a systematic description of the hitherto known Macrolepidoptera Volume 1 The Palearctic Butterflies Stuttgart : Seitz'schen (Kernen)
- ↑ 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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