Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Colias | |
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Similar Colias euxanthe, Colias tamerlana, Colias arida, Colias montium, Colias berylla | ||
Colias flaveola is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Tropical Andes subregion of the Neotropical ecozone.
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Description
Colias flaveola is pale orange yellow in the female, in the rather broad dark distal margin of the forewing are placed four large yellowish-white subapical spots, the under surface has dull sulphur-yellow ground colour. Deeper orange-yellow coloured female specimens are common.
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Taxonomy
Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas.
References
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