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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.
Contents
The wingspan is 28–43 mm.
The butterfly flies in June to August depending on the location.
The larvae feed on legume species.
Subspecies
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
References
Colias tyche Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA