Colias flaveola

Colias flaveola is a butterfly in the family Pieridae. It is found in the Tropical Andes subregion of the Neotropical realm.

Colias flaveola
Row h, 5th butterfly
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Colias
Species:
C. flaveola
Binomial name
Colias flaveola
Synonyms
  • Colias weberbaueri Strand, 1912
  • Colias euxanthe alticola ab. virescens Rothschild, 1913
  • Colias euxanthe nigerrima Fassl, 1915
  • Colias mossi Rothschild, 1913
  • Colias blameyi Jörgensen, 1916
  • Colias mendozina Breyer, 1939

Description

Colias flaveola is pale orange yellow in the female, in the rather broad dark distal margin of the forewing are placed four large yellowish-white subapical spots, the under surface has dull sulphur-yellow ground colour. Deeper orange-yellow coloured female specimens are common.

Subspecies
  • C. f. flaveola Chile
  • C. f. weberbaueri Strand, 1912 Peru, Bolivia
  • C. f. mossi Rothschild, 1913 Peru
  • C. f. blameyi Jörgensen, 1916 Argentina
  • C. f. mendozina Breyer, 1939 Argentina
  • C. f. erika Lamas, 1981 Peru

Taxonomy

Accepted as a species by Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas.[2]

References
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  1. Colias, Site of Markku Savela
  2. Josef Grieshuber & Gerardo Lamas (2007). "A synonymic list of the genus Colias Fabricius, 1807 (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)" (PDF). Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft. 97: 131–171. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
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