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Colotis euippe

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Scientific name
  
Colotis euippe

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Colotis

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Colotis antevippe, Colotis celimene, Belenois creona, Colotis vesta, Colotis eris

Colotis euippe is a butterfly of the Pieridae family that is found in the Afrotropic ecozone.

The wingspan is 35–45 mm. The adults fly year-round.

The larva feed on Maerua, Capparis, Cadaba, and Boscia species.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:

  • C. e. euippe (Linnaeus, 1758) – round-winged orange tip (southern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, northern Angola)
  • C. e. mediata Talbot, 1939 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, northern and western Zimbabwe)
  • C. e. omphale (Godart, 1819) – smoky orange tip (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Comoros)
  • C. e. complexivus (Butler, 1886) (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, southern Somalia)
  • C. e. exole (Reiche, 1850) (southern Sudan, southern Ethiopia, Somalia, south-western Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
  • C. e. mirei Bernardi, 1960 (Tibesti Mountains in Chad)

    • References

    Colotis euippe Wikipedia
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