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Colias thisoa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Colias

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Similar
  
Colias caucasica, Colias chlorocoma, Colias romanovi, Colias christophi, Colias chrysotheme

Colias thisoa is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in the mountains of the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, central Asia, southern Siberia, Turkey and Iran. The habitat consists of humid mountain meadows in the forest belt.

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The larvae feed on Astragalus species.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:

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  • Colias thisoa thisoa (Caucasus Major)
  • Colias thisoa strandiana Sheljuzhko, 1935 (Caucasus Minor, Armenian Highland)
  • Colias thisoa shakuhensis Sheljuzhko, 1935 (Talysh, Kopet-Dagh)
  • Colias thisoa aeolides Grum-Grshimailo, 1890 (northern and Inner Tian-Shan, Ghissar, Darvaz, Alai)
  • Colias thisoa urumtsiensis Verity, 1909 (central Tian-Shan)
  • Colias thisoa irtyschensis Lukhtanov, 1999 (south-western Altai)
  • Colias thisoa nikolaevi Korshunov, 1998 (Alai, Kurai, Tyurguno Steppe)

    • Colias thisoa Colias thisoa eurolepsch Heiner Ziegler

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    References

    Colias thisoa Wikipedia
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