Colotis euippe

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Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Pieridae Scientific name Colotis euippe		Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Colotis Rank Species

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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