Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Colias | |
Similar Colias tamerlana, Colias aegidii, Colias montium, Colias berylla, Colias arida | ||
Colias grumi is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in north-western China (described from Nanshan).
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Subspecies
All described subspecies may be only ecological variations, and therefore junior synonyms. The taxa C. g. burchana and C. g. evanescens are only provisionally accepted as subspecies
Description
It is similar to Colias cocandica but is lighter in colour, the hindwing beneath being blue-grey, not greenish.
Taxonomy
Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas
References
Colias grumi Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA