Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Colias | |
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Similar Colias eogene, Colias berylla, Colias montium, Colias cocandica, Colias tamerlana | ||
Colias arida is a butterfly in the family Pieridae found in Tibet and western China.
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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." It was accepted as a full species by Grieshuber & Lamas in 2007.
Subspecies
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References
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