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Colotis evagore

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Colotis

Colotis evagore

Colotis evagore, the desert orange tip, small orange tip, or tiny orange tip, is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found in the dry parts of tropical Africa, northern Africa, southern Spain and southwest Arabia.

The wingspan is 28–35 mm in males and 28–38 mm in females. The adults fly from February to August depending on the range.

The larva feed on Maerua, Capparis and Cadaba species.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognized:

  • C. e. evagore Klug, 1829small orange tip (Saudi Arabia, Yemen)
  • C. e. nouna Lucas, 1849 (Spain, north-west Africa)
  • C. e. antigone Boisduval, 1836 (Sub-Saharan Africa, including Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Kenya, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland)
  • C. e. niveus Butler, 1881 (Socotra)
  • References

    Colotis evagore Wikipedia