Colias viluiensis
| Colias viluiensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pieridae |
| Genus: | Colias |
| Species: | C. viluiensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Colias viluiensis Ménétries, 1859[1] | |
Colias viluiensis, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Transbaikalia.
Description
Pale orange-yellow, with rather narrow distal margin, light-centred middle spot on the forewing and very large, reddish-brown-edged middle spot on the hindwing. Underside pale yellow; hindwing dusted with greenish, the distal margins being pale blackish, the middle spot of the forewing having a light-coloured centre and the large white middle spot of the hindwing being double and edged with black; female red or white, hindwing sometimes almost black.
Subspecies
- C. v. viluiensis
- C. v. dahurica Austaut, 1899
- C. v. heliophora Churkin & Grieshuber, 2001 Chukotka
Taxonomy
Treated as a subspecies of Colias hecla by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas, who point out that the spelling viluensis was used by Ménétriés in his earliest published description. [2]
References
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- ↑ Colias, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ 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.
External links
- State Darwin Museum Darwin Museum type specimen images of Colias viluiensis heliophora Churkin et Grieshuber, 2001
- Rusinsects
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