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Colias arida

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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

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

    Colias arida Wikipedia
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