Colotis evenina

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

Similar Colotis vesta, Colotis antevippe, Colotis celimene, Colotis auxo, Colotis subfasciatus

Colotis evenina, the common orange tip, is a butterfly of the Pieridae family. It is found in the Afrotropic ecozone.

The wingspan is 38–45 mm in males and 35–42 mm in females. The adults have fly year-round.

The larva feed on Boscia albitrunca and Capparis species.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised:

C. e. evenina (Mozambique, southern and eastern Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho)

C. e. sipylus (Swinhoe, 1884) (coast of Kenya, Tanzania, northern Zimbabwe)

C. e. xantholeuca (Sharpe, 1904) (southern Uganda, central and south-western Kenya, central, northern and western Tanzania)

C. e. casta (Gerstaecker, 1871) (northern Zimbabwe, Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, northern Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia)

References

Colotis evenina Wikipedia

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