Colias tyche

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Scientific name Colias tyche		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Tribe Coliadini Rank Species

Similar Colias hecla, Colias nastes, Colias christina, Colias behrii, Colias occidentalis

Colias tyche, the Booth's sulphur or pale Arctic clouded yellow, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found from Baffin Island west along the Hudson Bay and arctic coasts of the Nunavut and Northwest Territories mainland and the southern tier of Arctic Islands to northern Yukon, Alaska, and Eurasia.

The wingspan is 28–43 mm.

The butterfly flies in June to August depending on the location.

The larvae feed on legume species.

Subspecies

C. t. tyche (northern Eurasia)

C. t. relicta Kurentzov, 1970 (Chukot Peninsula, Far East)

C. t. werdandi Zetterstedt, 1839 (northern Europe)

C. t. magadanica Churkin, Grieshuber, Bogdanov & Zamolodchikov, 2001 (Magadan)

C. t. flinti Churkin, Grieshuber, Bogdanov & Zamolodchikov, 2001 (Wrangel Island)

C. t. olga Churkin, Grieshuber, Bogdanov & Zamolodchikov, 2001 (East Chukotka)

C. t. boothii Curtis, 1835 (Northwest Territories, Yukon, Baffin Island, Victoria Island, Banks Island, Alaska)

C. t. thula Hovanitz, 1955 (Alaska and in Canada on Banks, Victoria and Melville Islands) may be a full species.

Both of the Nearctic subspecies C. t. boothii (Booth's sulphur) and C. t. thula (Thula sulphur) are treated as valid species by some authors.

Similar species

Hecla sulphur (C. hecla)

Labrador sulphur (C. nastes)

References

Colias tyche Wikipedia

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