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Colotis pleione

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Pieridae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Colotis

Colotis pleione, the orange patch tip, is a butterfly in the Pieridae family. It is found in Arabia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Sudan and Chad. The habitat consists of very dry savanna to sub-deserts.

The larvae feed on Capparis, Cadaba and Cleome species.

Subspecies

  • Colotis pleione pleione (western and southern Arabia)
  • Colotis pleione heliocaustus (Butler, 1886) (Ethiopia, Somalia, northern and north-eastern Kenya)
  • Colotis pleione nilus Talbot, 1942 (southern and central Sudan, Chad)

    • References

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