Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Colias | |
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Similar Colias eogene, Colias romanovi, Colias staudingeri, Colias montium, Colias berylla | ||
Colias regia is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the East Palearctic (Kyrgyzstan west into Tajikistan, Tian Shan, N. China).
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Description
C. regia Gr.-Grsh. (26 d), from Southern Fergana, is magnificently golden red, with a very feeble violet sheen in the male and a stronger gloss in the female; the black marginal band not very broad, dusted with yellow, the middle spot of the forewing black, that of the hindwing red and inconspicuous. In the female the black distal margin is somewhat broader, bearing yellow spots at the apex of the forewing, the hindwing having small red obsolescent spots in the posterior portion of the band. The underside of the male is beautifully greenish yellow, with few markings, a black middle spot on the forewing and a brownish-edged one of mother-of-pearl colour on the hindwing; the underside of the hindwing darker in the female, the forewing being proximally beautifully golden red.
Taxonomy
Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas