Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Colias | |
Similar Colias montium, Colias berylla, Colias tamerlana, Colias arida, Colias regia | ||
Colias felderi is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Tibet and China.
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Description
Colias felderi is light orange red with a black margin, which is traversed by the yellow veins at the apex of the wing, and with a black middle spot. The hindwing has a yellowish band before the black distal margin. The underside, which has nothing distinctive, is without submarginal spots.
Taxonomy
Originally described as Colias species felderi Grum-Grshimailo, 1891 "in regione Amdo dicta, in montibus ad Sinin". Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas
Etymology
The name honours Rudolf Felder.
References
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